I get the modern display will have more physical pixels, but since the pixels on the old CRT are just bigger, it too should look blurry shouldn’t it?
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I’m not sure it’s exactly the proper term and issue at hand, but this [site ](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/antialiasing/)gives good visualizations of the difference.
In essence, CRTs don’t have pixels at all, they have “smudges of color” vs the “sharp edges” of pixel based screens.
The difference is sort of like painting a picture vs. building one out of lego bricks. The painting has soft edges that aren’t very jarring but you are stuck with really wide and broad brush strokes. The lego bricks are going to have jarring blocky corners that are ugly. The solution with the lego bricks is to make tinier and tiner and tinier bricks so blocky corners become smaller and less apparent and you can ’round the edges’ with tinier, smaller blocks.
You might have limits with the painting in terms of making insanely tiny details which you just can’t do with a big paint brush, but overall the picture looks very smooth and pretty. With the lego bricks you *can* make insanely fine and small details assuming you have microscopic lego bricks.
So in short, if all you have are Duplo blocks, lego bricks aren’t a great choice for nuanced detail, go with the painting. But if you need the super fine detail AND you have microscopic bricks, then use the bricks.
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