{"id":644209,"date":"2026-05-03T02:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:08:10","slug":"pushing-as-many-pixels-as-possible-to-a-crt-interlaced-4k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644209\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing As Many Pixels As Possible To A CRT: Interlaced 4K"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people love CRTs to a degree that the uninitiated may find obsessive. We all have our thing, and for [Found Tech], it\u2019s absolutely pointing particle accelerators at his face to play video games. He likes modern games, with modern resolutions\u2013 none of this 1080p nonsense. Today\u2019s gamers demand 4K! Can a CRT keep up? The answer is a resounding \u201cNo, but actually, yes!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

[Found Tech] has an IBM P275 monitor, which is one of the last generation of CRTs.\u00a0 Officially, the resolution maxes out at 1920 dots by 1440 lines. While one might (inaccurately) call that UHD output \u201c2K\u201d, you certainly cannot claim it is 4K. So, what\u2019s the secret? Interlacing. Yes, interlacing, like old analog TV signals.<\/p>\n

Apparently, in spite of what the manual says, getting the screen to absorb the 2880\u00d72160 interlaced signal wasn\u2019t the hard part, but generating it was. NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards are absolutely unable to create an interlaced signal, but Intel integrated GPUs are\u2013 if you get the right combo of chip and old driver. Sadly, the video doesn\u2019t list exactly what he used. Of course an iGPU isn\u2019t going to give you a very good gaming experience at this high resolution, so [Found Tech] has his games do their rendering on the discrete card before piping that over to the iGPU for display on the CRT.<\/p>\n

Technically, you still can\u2019t call the 2880\u00d72160 picture \u201c4K\u201d, as that trademark refers to 2160p at 16:9, and this is both interlaced and 4:3. Still, close enough. In spite of the artifacting that turned us all against interlaced signals back in the day, this apparently has [Found Tech]\u2019s eyes fooled\u2013 he says it\u2019s as good as 2160p on his OLED, plus the extra magic that comes with glowing phosphors.<\/p>\n

It certainly looks great in a recording, but the monitor in the recording isn\u2019t displayed at a high enough resolution to say for sure if it\u2019s 4K. Still, if you\u2019re into CRT gaming, maybe give this high-res interlacing a try. If you still don\u2019t get what\u2019s so great about CRTs, check here, <\/a>and remember it could be worse\u2013 at least we\u2019re not going on about Plasma TV<\/a>s.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some people love CRTs to a degree that the uninitiated may find obsessive. We all have our thing,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-644209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}