Comment by 747fulloftapes
1 day ago
A late 90s Trinitron would have been 4:3, so 1280x1024. I found it more important to run a trinitron at the native resolution for the shadow mask. Otherwise things got blurry and gross. A bit like using an LCD at its non-native resolution where things get unevenly stretched and squished.
I seem to remember my Sony G220 had a native resolution of 1024x768 and I could run it up around 100Hz. I think the max was 1600x1200@60Hz.
Often my maximum refresh rate was limited by my graphics card's dot clock rather than the CRT specs.
> 4:3, so 1280x1024
That’s 5:4. The correct 4:3 resolution is indeed 1280x960.
That’s true, but for some reason, in mid-1990s operating systems, the step up from 1024x768 was usually 1280x1024.
Maybe there was a popular professional monitor at some point that was 5:4 and had this resolution?
Many of the first popular LCD monitors were 17" or 19" 5:4 1280x1024.
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