It is odd. VGA on CRTs at high res is just awful compared to new LED monitors. Possibly the way the program displays data needs the squarish aspect ratio of an old school monitor. There are old school square LCD monitors but not many of them will do 120hz.
You can set 16:9 LED displays to 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions with black bars on the sides if you want.
Ah, but that gives the image a warmer, more human tone!
It’s a videophile thing. You wouldn’t understand.
Luckily for him, they now have special HDMI cables that recreate the warmth and tone of VGA. I recommend the AudioQuest Diamond braided HDMI cable for $1088 from Amazon:
Yeah, well, “pro video” is not the same thing, and it is odd that you assume that “my” “personal eccentric quirk” is something that I have control (or financial responsibility) over or that a LCD, even an expensive gaming monitor is something that is acceptable and sufficient to publish with. For some applications you can use an LCD, but they are nothing that you can buy from Newegg or Amazon, and start at $10,000+.
Jesus H. Christ, that’s one of those Amazon pricing errors, right? I thought Monster $100 cables were bad. I guess the 1s are more “onesie” and the 0s are more “zerosie” than your mundane HDMI cables, right? Are the connectors adamantium or vibranium?
Ok are you doing some kind of research where you use the CRT to show stimuli to humans or animals and measure response times? In that case I completely apologise as CRTs are still superior for that field.
However if you are using the CRT to visualise scientific data of any kind, a modern LED with a digital connection is objectively better than any VGA monitor and what you display your data on has no effect on publishing.
Yes. And I have no idea when this one was made, but it’s been hoarded for quite some time. It has at least one twin who is feeling neglected and still sitting there 
The problem you’re going to have is that modern display drivers are not going to be made at all for high refresh rates on an analog output. As you’re seeing its a complete crapshoot if it will work or not. You might be better off using older versions of video drivers and even an older version of windows if you can. Of course that might cause a raft of other problems, but maybe you could have a WindowsXP system that is not networked to anything and is only used to display the stimuli for the research.
Exactly. This kind of research, it’s totally ok to use cobbled together equipment that is old if the new stuff won’t cut it. I’ve done the very same thing in my day job. Dig up some old PC and run windows XP or even windows 98 on it. Don’t do anything with the PC BUT the part you need to do for your research. Boom, there you go.
Or, alternately, go to the local computer shop and grab a real discrete video card. It doesn’t need to be a high end one, just a low end model from AMD or NVidia, one with enough oomph to need a fan. Check the internet first to make sure the model you buy does have CRT out at all. Pop it in and test it. Make sure you get it from a store that lets you return things…
And that’s one of the things that makes them inferior, in my opinion. I always have to try to mimic a bit of a blur by misaligning the clock a bit. I still argue that you don’t want to be able to distinguish a single pixel as a perfect square. So either you increase DPI so that they’re too small, or you make them just a little bit blurry.
It’s the way nearly everything in real life looks.
Get at 4K display and run it at 2560x1440 retina mode. OS X handles this perfectly and once you use one you’ll never want to go back to 72 dpi. I’m assuming Windows 10 can do this now as well? You can pick up a 27 inch 4K display for $500 now, well worth it if you do any kind of graphic / video work.
I know what you’re talking about. I recently spent $900 on a 4k display and finally got back to text that resembles CRT text. Basically, once you have enough pixels on an LCD, cleartype text (so it’s not just the pixels, the subpixels are also contributing) has that smooth curviness of CRT text. And there’s no flicker and the screen is perfectly flat and the particular model I have is 30 inches, bigger than almost every CRT monitor ever made, and it’s thin and sips only 30 watts and I can run it all day and there’s no image burn in and there’s no pixel jitter and so on and so forth.