Hi,
I've only ever owned three CRTs and they came with prebuilt DELLs over a 9 year period. They were all 19inches and looked quite sharp. Now I've recently bought a new 19inch CRT from ViewSonic called the 'E96f+SB', but there's a graphics querk that looks annoyingly normal. Could it be called a 'moire' pattern? I've tried to create it in MSPaint below but please note, It's exaggerated. Imagine the pattern 50% more faded and 50% more tiny. It covers the entire screen which is why it seems normal, but I've created it in top left of pic only.
It's like a microscopic checkered pattern, but noticeable on shortcut icons, gray edges of windows and text being slightly broken. It's like scanlines for the vertical and horizontal. A very subtle thing.
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