Relatedly, if anyone hasn't read it, Kyle Pittman has a lovely rundown of his attempts at emulating various CRT-effects digitally during development of the indie game Super Win the Game: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/C...

Of course, most people (Pittman included) felt that configuring the visually emulation too accurately was annoying and/or unbelievable. :P