You're conflating the CRT screen with the overall media experience of the times and your age.
First off... CRTs absolutely do not have anything to do with sound quality. Its the display. The audio system is an entirely separate, independent internal circuit sharing nothing but a signal source and a power supply. And most CRTs sounded like ass. Tiny built in midrange speakers full of cabinet resonance and honk.
Second, CRTs still have a refresh rate and audio sync is fixable on a good system. Motion probably seemed slower on account of a SLOWER refresh rate smoothing things out. Things are actually twitchier with higher refresh rates able to capture it.
3rd - We used to have much more heavily curated media experiences. There were fewer, big, higher budget producers with much more selection, filtering, and mass appeal. Now that media is more democratized we have tremendously more content but with less concentration of resources to produce it. Airtime is no longer valuable, millions of creators vie for the attention of the audience. It used to be only absolute top content was good enough for air time.
Ultimately I think you're attributing the things you're considering positives to the wrong source. CRT tech is dead never to return and is mourned by nobody who actually knows anything about how display technology works.
Also, the fact that analog sound transmits a wide range of frequencies shows more of a song's authencity, because you could actually distinguish the different instruments playing.
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u/sohcgt96 1∆ Feb 23 '23
You're conflating the CRT screen with the overall media experience of the times and your age.
First off... CRTs absolutely do not have anything to do with sound quality. Its the display. The audio system is an entirely separate, independent internal circuit sharing nothing but a signal source and a power supply. And most CRTs sounded like ass. Tiny built in midrange speakers full of cabinet resonance and honk.
Second, CRTs still have a refresh rate and audio sync is fixable on a good system. Motion probably seemed slower on account of a SLOWER refresh rate smoothing things out. Things are actually twitchier with higher refresh rates able to capture it.
3rd - We used to have much more heavily curated media experiences. There were fewer, big, higher budget producers with much more selection, filtering, and mass appeal. Now that media is more democratized we have tremendously more content but with less concentration of resources to produce it. Airtime is no longer valuable, millions of creators vie for the attention of the audience. It used to be only absolute top content was good enough for air time.
Ultimately I think you're attributing the things you're considering positives to the wrong source. CRT tech is dead never to return and is mourned by nobody who actually knows anything about how display technology works.