• grue@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      That image is a digital rendering of the raw data, not a photo of how a CRT would render it.

      CRTs were nothing if not the opposite of jagged.

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          11 months ago

          “Blurred” is the opposite of “jagged,” though.

          The jaggedness of the 2600 wasn’t because the TV itself was jagged; it was because the 2600 was so low-resolution (160x192, maximum) that it had to be upscaled – naively, with no antialiasing! – even just to get to NTSC (480 scanlines, give or take).

          So yeah, when each “pixel” is three scanlines tall, of course it’s going to look jagged even after the CRT blurs it!

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            11 months ago

            A high resolution LCD with anti aliasing will do a better job than a low resolution crt. Crt shadowmasks defined the limits of pixels and it wasn’t good even on computers that could output higher than 2600 resolution.