[JKCalhoun]

Reading this, marveling at the beautiful place we seem to be with regard to display technology.

Maybe an expert can clarify. My sense is that we actually were seeing amazing specs on displays toward the end of the CRT era—and that there was a kind of LCD lull where we traded color fidelity, gamut and dynamic range for thinness. But we are now seeing display technology catching up to and perhaps exceeding the best of the CRT displays?

[anikom15]

That’s not what happened. The phosphors chosen for CRTs were pretty much unchanged from the late 80s through the end of the CRT era. There were minor differences in formulation, but often that was at the expense of color accuracy for motion clarity.

The early LCDs were poor because of limitations of the backlight’s spectrum. Once LED backlights were introduced, this was no longer a problem.