[kiawe_fire]

I’ve often wondered of the feasibility of some kind of special built LED monitor with a custom chip to handle real-time (within a frame or two) scan line generation and CRT mask / phosphor glow emulation built in, with a slightly curved glass in front of it to complete the illusion.

That way, to my uneducated mind, the monitor itself would be handling the CRT shader effects and could accept any input, including real 80s/90s/00s devices.

But it’s quite likely that I’m underestimating what it would take to have a dedicated input processor in a display that works as well as the GPU shaders do, and underestimating the minimum amount of input lag required.

[layer8]

You could certainly integrate a shader into a monitor using a sufficiently powerful GPU or equivalent. But looking at https://i0.wp.com/wackoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CRT... for example, you'd need at least 10 times the original resolution, which for NTSC would translate to roughly the same vertical resolution as an 8K display, if not more.

The curved glass wouldn't be necessary, nor very desirable, IMO. Trinitron TVs were approximatly flat and great for CRT gaming.