Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s been a while, but changing resolution on a CRT normally doesn’t make the picture smaller.

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    • user134450@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  320 x 120 resolution

  I am embarrassed for having read that

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  • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The best games!

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I need newly made modern CRTs. The salvage ones I have tested all have degraded image

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was it worth it tho?

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