That you feel the need to inform us of this "historical fact" makes me feel especially old... having lived through the CRT -> LCD transition period when buying an LCD made going to LAN parties a lot easier
Means something very different now.
If the majority of the blue you see in the world is the sky and the sea, would you just start to think of blue as a blank? If you just consider blue as something more like we consider white, then any competing hues dominate what you describe. So just like white with the tiniest bit of red becomes pink, a purplish sea becomes red?
On LCDs, I still can see faint flicker on some static backgrounds, and I think 60 Hz might play a role here too—though it seems to also depend on the brightness and Flux being on or off. E.g. on https://marctenbosch.com/news/
(temporal dithering usually is visible as slight noise on darker shades)
PAL and 50 Hz TV are not synonymous. Brazil has 60 Hz AC and uses PAL-M which is 60 Hz TV. AC=TV even in these odd cases.
Old CRTs couldn't possibly clock their flyback to anything but mains.
Cheap LEDs like some holiday minilights are rectified so they'll flicker at 60 Hz and I can't stand them.
When I get rich and have lots of free time, I'll probably buy a bunch of old CRTs just to dig to the roots of this.
I remember playing MoH:AA, the play experience was quite out of this world.
This basically calibrated the thing to look normal... with the magnet there. It took quite a while to restore to normal.
No? Huh, guess it was just me ;)
No idea how the previous owner managed to magnetize it, it never happened to me.
15 years later it is still the case I use today, even though I am thinking about replacing it. Doesn't get much carrying today though.
¹ It was actually an interlaced field, not a frame, but that too much nitpicking.
There is also a navbar (back/home/recent buttons). In my case it's a white-ish rectangle that's almost always present on screen. By the time Samsung added an option to hide it, the damage was already done.
I have them both burnt in on my screen. I first noticed them after merely 1.5 years of using the phone.
OLED burn in is a 100% real thing.
I've still yet to see an LCD that performs as well as those CRTs, though.
It worked fine, felt like a huge waste of money. But it weighed over 100 pounds!
We're both just as bad as each other, the meaning is discernible.
I had a small apartment so my desk/office area was a corner of the living room and I could run an HDMI cable over to use it as a secondary monitor for watching stuff on the computer. Even the fact that it would display 1080i was a huge jump from my previous bargain bin TV.
It was the days of Windows Media Center and it was before cable companies got rid of Clear QAM channels so I found that I could just take the shared cable in my 3-apartment house and hook up to a cheap Hauppauge card for tuner, guide, and DVR. Add a cheap USB IR receiver/remote and it was like having the "good" cable with the bells and whistles (but with a better interface and for free).
Eventually got an HDTV when prices came down and income went up, but a few years ago when a girl I knew was looking for a CRT to set up a retro gaming station for her young daughter, I donated all 111 lbs. of it gladly. That thing is probably still going.