> But it's not quite the same as the real thing.

To be fair, with modern "retina" HDR displays, it should be very very close.

The most important element of the CRT look is the fast phosphor decay. This is why CRTs have so little sample-and-hold blur. No other hardware can simulate it perfectly, but a 480Hz OLED display comes close:

https://blurbusters.com/crt-simulation-in-a-gpu-shader-looks...

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hulitu 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> it should be very very close

It should. It isn't. For some obscure reason, VGA colours look different on every modern LCD.

	▲	nomel an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Most modern displays are calibrated, to some reasonable level, and can easily accommodate the very limited gamut of an old CRT, especially anything supporting HDR10. I suspect this is more of "they need to be fudged so they're wrong" more than anything.
	▲	nomel an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Most modern displays are calibrated, to some reasonable level, and can easily accommodate the very limited gamut of an old CRT. I suspect this is more of "they need to be corrected so they're wrong" more than anything.