CRTs vs Early LCDs

[theNewChud]

When it comes to retro gaming, I mostly stick to my PSone and PS2 slim due to game availability and "tolerance" (my cutoff point is the SNES era, below that the games just turn into pixel chasers for me) of graphics and gameplay.
My main way of playing is to connect my PS2 via component and PSX via composite to my 2001? 18 in. LG Flatron TV that's in 4:3 and uses LCD. I never felt like the games "weren't soft enough" or that the sprites weren't being distorted enough to create those fake depth effects that many like to talk about online. After buying a CRT and testing some games on there, I can't say that I understand the "hype" or difference in that console generation when it comes to how the graphics are projected on the screen via the 2 methods. If anything I have to say that I think that the best way to play PS2 games for me would be to use the component and 4:3 LCD combination.
Are a lot of criticisms nowadays regarding LCD screens a matter of people having TVs with pixel counts that are way to high and sizes that inevitably distort the image beyond proportions that would have been common in the 00's?

 

[Aziamuth]

Sometimes I'd pet my CRT and the screen'd purr. It was very cute

 

[NemissaFotia]

A lot of the criticisms are based on the fact that most modern TVs don't handle 240p correctly so anything pre-PS2 era will look terrible on them without an external scaler. Early LCDs were a lot better at handling this since there were plenty of people wanting to plug in something that outputs 240p so manufacturers usually made their TVs support that. Most modern displays don't though so it's usually a horrible experience.

480i is usually fine on a modern display though. I actually like the look of the PS2 on a modern OLED and there's plenty of games that support 480p that pretty much no CRT TVs (not counting monitors) supported. So I think early LCDs have their place.

 

[Ravl]

Early LCDs are not good, do not use them. It took decades for the best LCDs to even become comparable to the cheapest consumers CRTs from the 90s.
The masses were scammed and to this day they fail to understand what They took from them

 

[nakatasooyoung]

if you want LCD TV for Retro Gaming, buy an HDTV LCD which is 720p by nature.
you could put it into 1080i but not 1080p.
the lower the resolution, the better at handling older games.