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not to be all pretentious about it but i think one underappreciated thing about crt tvs was the way pure noise looks. like when it wasn't tuned to anything and everything on the screen is noise. it simply looks completely different from noise on any lcd and i can't convey it

@hikari Have you ever seen a LCD monitor fail to negotiate HDCP properly? Depending on what the monitor should've been showing, it's not that different from analog TV snow (though usually more colourful).

@jernej__s it happens to me occasionally! i think it's its own experience though

@hikari I've had it happen a few times in the past, but since I bought a new monitor (Samsung S90PC) it's been happening often enough (not quite daily, but several times per week) that I'm seriously considering returning it (I already updated the firmware, which did not help).

@hikari This monitor is cursed – I already had the panel replaced twice, first time because it had two black spots (I don't think they were dead pixels – looked like there was something inside the screen), and second time because they packed it wrongly when returning from service and the panel got broken during shipping.

Unfortunately there are currently no other 5k PC-compatible displays on the market.