It makes sense you’d be able to get a much higher refresh rate on a tube if you reduce the resolution, since you would be reducing the beam’s travel.
Changing the resolution on a CRT normally doesn’t make the picture smaller. There is no native resolution, phosphors are not pixels. My Viewsonic would display 640x480 or 1600x1200 on the whole 21” regardless. You can also watch the video, it’s not using a smaller area.
I believe the limitation is bandwidth, not the electron beam.
There is a limit on the spacing of the colour bands though. If you want colours then you have to hit the spots where the correct phosphors are and this limits the usable resolution.
What do you mean? The shadow mask ensures the gun for each colour can only hit the phosphors of that colour. How would a lower resolution change that?
Yeah I didn’t think it would make the “pixels” smaller, but the beam would need to pulse less often and therefore could travel more. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what they did.
Electron beams scan insanely fast, that isn’t the limiting factor. Getting that much bandwidth across a VGA cable is tough. If you wanted super high refresh rates on old CRTs you’d have to drop the resolution. Same concept.
Ah. I see, so reducing the resolution was more about sending frames to the monitor faster, not about optimizing the tube hardware’s behaviour
320 x 120 resolution
I am embarrassed for having read that
The best games!
Fun overclocking project. I wonder how far can you go with the fastest LCD monitors
Dell is already at 500Hz 1080p
Is it really worth the cost after 144 Hz, though? Are there applications for a higher refresh rate than the human eye can even see?
This guy is pretty exited about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqa7QVwfu7s
He says it looks “real”
higher refresh rate than the human eye can even see
There is no fixed limit on refresh rate that we can see, that’s not how seeing works.
Thanks for the answer!
I know there’s no numbered fixed limit on the human eye, obviously, but it seems like beyond a certain screen refresh rate our eyes wouldn’t really notice a difference, yeah?
For Joe Everyman with a reaction time of 250-300ms it would probably not be worth the additional cost, but for esports players who have a reaction time of half that already it starts to matter more, especially for games that run synchronously on a tick system.
Ah, so like the esports competitions for LoL and the like? That makes more sense. Thanks!
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I need newly made modern CRTs. The salvage ones I have tested all have degraded image, and none go that fast even with micro resolution
Was it worth it tho?
