I find neither the aperture grill nor shadow mask aesthetically appealing.
Throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s I spent obscene amounts of money trying to minimize them. Smaller and smaller grills, the switch to shadow masks and their infernal lines, it never stopped.
To me, any screen technology where I can look at the clock in the upper right or lower left corner and see the pixels comprising the numbers (or a blurry smear) is trash.
The same with colors. Any screen technology that cannot accurately reproduce colors is trash. Asking a CRT to accurately reproduce colors, even something as minimally acceptable as Rec.709, is like asking me to perform brain surgery: it ain't happening brah.
Throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s I spent obscene amounts of money trying to minimize them. Smaller and smaller grills, the switch to shadow masks and their infernal lines, it never stopped.
To me, any screen technology where I can look at the clock in the upper right or lower left corner and see the pixels comprising the numbers (or a blurry smear) is trash.
The same with colors. Any screen technology that cannot accurately reproduce colors is trash. Asking a CRT to accurately reproduce colors, even something as minimally acceptable as Rec.709, is like asking me to perform brain surgery: it ain't happening brah.