I won't be here quite as often...

[A Black Falcon]

I've always wondered why moving the image around and resizing it on a CRT screen computer moniter doesn't cause the colors to constantly change repeatedly, like a rainbow. Turns out that the 3 electron guns, which otherwise are functionally identical, only have one real difference, their location inside the tube (duh), and the two masks are designed around the "angle of attack" from each of these 3 guns, since their different location means the light enters at a different angle. Essentially, light from one of the guns is "blocked", no matter how the magnetic field inside it happens to adjust it, so no angles that are possible with magnetic adjustment will ever get inside the specific place of a red phosfor for either the blue or green phosphors to enter it.

Neat, another riddle solved.

The part at the end about exploding imploding vacuum tubes is fun too... :)

Yep I get the point now, though in all honesty I don't really notice much of an issue. Then agian I don't notice low frame rates until they reach a certain point either.

Anyway, yes LCD screens have some issues, and some of them seem inherent. Fortunatly it seems that this will in fact be resolved with the new technologies coming out soon.

Well yeah, these days the most obvious thing is just the low resolutions, but those other things do exist if you look closely, or look at less expensive LCDs like the ones in handheld consoles... (like the brighter GBA-SP and the reports that it blurs more than older GBA-SPs -- that's because it's an LCD, of course, and I guess that the brighter screen led to some problems with ghosting...)