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fallat • yesterday at 2:19 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

In a sense pixels arent even real today right? It's an abstraction


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kstrauser • yesterday at 3:04 PM

Kinda, but a CRT literally doesn’t have precise pixel targeting in the way an LCD does. Instead, you’re telling the electron gun to draw red for a little while, and it paints what it paints.

layer8 • yesterday at 4:53 PM

LCD and OLED panels consist of a fixed, unchangeable matrix of native pixels. (Same for the discontinued Plasma TVs.) CRTs don’t have that.