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Originally Posted by TheShanMan

I just watched that video too and the one thing I wish it also demonstrated was recoating the phosphors. Coming from the arcade hobby, screen burn is the biggest CRT problem so that's why I'm so interested in that. Any footage of that you can post?

Two big holes for your bubble:

1: Most talk I've heard from the ETF don't seem to indicate intention to rebuild tubes newer then roundy color CRTs.

2:Rephosphoring is only practical for monochrome tubes. The proper equipment for silk screening the color phosphor dot patterns for color tubes was found only at the factories that made them. that process is exorbitantly expensive and technologically challenging......Even nearly all the old CRT rebuilders never rephosphored color tubes.....Once they're burned they are burned and that is the end.

On color arcade monitors your best bet would be to reduce brightness to minimum watchable levels, and if that ain't enough maybe set up an under-scan, and modify it with some system to continuously slowly shift the centering....Or just live with the burn.