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Captain_Yuri said:

I personally wasn't old enough to appreciate the difference between CRT and LCD. We did have a CRT TV but the jump we made was from 24 inch CRT to 55 inch LCD so for me, I never really looked back. The tests are very interesting though, especially with retro games.

Yeah its probably like looking back at older tech like Vinyl vs modern standards we're used to today. Kinda had to be there. Just remember looking back at how we went from everything CRT's, and eventually replaced by LCD's. It was a step forward in some ways and a major step back in others. I still remember looking back at my some of my friends earlier HDTV's and seeing horrible clouding and motion compared to old CRT's and even Plasmas.

Back then I didn't really care as it was the new flat monitor technology and the transitions to HDTV's made the tranition more palatable. Despite there were always comprises like motion handling, black level smearing and ofc crappy viewing angles. Though for HD consoles (PS3/Xbox 360) and cable boxes (remember those?) they were much more crisp due to supporting higher resolutions; at least on 'flat' tv's/montiors and took up way less space.

And if we talk a about monitors back then, you could only really get monitors with TN panels when LCD was in its infancy. With IPS monitors being only available at the high end (and costs into the thousands iirc) due to costly manufacturing. But yeah early TN's was dreadful compared to even a low end CRT lol. It took a while for LCD's to get good with cheaper IPS panels to hit the market.

Yea I remember those days of TN panels which were hot garbage. TN only really felt acceptable at the high end and really until you saw how god tier IPS was. IPS felt like it was when LCD really started becoming fap worthy. Better colors, better viewing angles and etc. You could get some TN panels that were competitive to IPS in various areas, even exceeding in some but boy, the color shift from TN made it feel so horrible.

In a lot of ways, Mini-LED feels like the "TN" of the next generation of displays where OLED feels like "IPS". Mini-LEDs are great in certain situations like with Apple's M1 Pro where you get 10,000 zones in a 16 inch form factor. But majority of them where it's sub 500 zones or even sub 1000 zones are either shit or goodsh. Not to mention they have problems like a ton of ghosting or scan lines and such. But now that QD-OLED is here, Mini-LED may as well be useless other than it being more widely available.