Comment by Dylan16807
4 months ago
For anything from a camera, you want the right kind of smoothing and some amount of phosphor emulation, but the source usually has a long enough shutter time to make the latter less important.
With pixel art go ahead and add bloom, and faster phosphors become more important. But not much else. I don't think anything wants focus issues and power supply sag.
I just want to eventually be able to view NTSC video like it used to be viewed, but without preserving a CRT to do so with.
It was originally proofed on a CRT. It may have been a ridiculously-good and Sony BVM in excellent calibration, but it was still a CRT that had CRT issues.
(I don't care much if nobody else wants that experience. I'll build it myself when I feel that modern displays have become flexible-enough to accomplish my goals.)
A high quality CRT wouldn't have a lot of those issues. And a lot of content wasn't proofed on anything, it's raw camera output. Either way if something came from a camera there's no intent to have half of CRT's problems, and they very likely didn't do any compensation for those problems that would look bad on a better screen.
Wanting the whole package of CRT flaws isn't just playing a record, it's playing a record with a cheap needle. Go ahead if it feels more nostalgic or right to you, and I wish you luck in finding what you want. But I don't think it adds anything, and to some extent it detracts from the original.
I hope that you have a very nice day, and wish that you may reconsider the value of telling others the way in which they shall (and shall not) enjoy their media.
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