# content
People think of Standard Definition TVs when they think of CRTs, but there's actually no necessary connection.

Those beautiful, crisp, sharp, white lines in Asteroids are much older than television - the very first CRTs were vector-based not raster-based, and technically-capable of amazingly fine resolution. Oscilloscopes FTW!

But there were no computers around to make use of their full potential.

Any modern computer with stereo audio output can drive a vector CRT, with resolution hundreds of times sharper than a modern OLED or LCD screen. The limitations are not resolution per se, more around the rate of change your op-amps are capable of, and leakage of storage capacitors.

# _misskey_content
People think of Standard Definition TVs when they think of CRTs, but there's actually no necessary connection.

Those beautiful, crisp, sharp, white lines in Asteroids are much older than television - the very first CRTs were vector-based not raster-based, and technically-capable of amazingly fine resolution.  Oscilloscopes FTW!

But there were no computers around to make use of their full potential.

Any modern computer with stereo audio output can drive a vector CRT, with resolution hundreds of times sharper than a modern OLED or LCD screen. The limitations are not resolution per se, more around the rate of change your op-amps are capable of, and leakage of storage capacitors.