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[Alex KL-1]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Actually, modern flat screens have much better color than the old CRT sets, IF you turn off the "lighthouse" default sales-floor mode and set them to a calibrated mode. This is especially true because of the much better contrast (consistent, blacker blacks) of flat panel sets.
This was not true with the very early flat sets because makers had not gotten the hang of compensating the extreme non-linearity of LCDs to match the ideally smooth non-linearity of CRTs.

Well noted about the sales-floor mode. Even OLED comes with some saturated thing to catch the consumer... in my OLED, I apllied only well-carefully adjust settings. It also have 100 point adjusting, like the LCD, for shaping the display curve response.

But then, we can calibrate a CRT device for true black levels and great contrast, but is more challenging due to simplified nature of the beast.
More modern CRT TV having "AKB" will stabilize the black point and color balance, and produces outstanding contrast picture with true black at same time, only seen in OLED TV's, since OLED are emissive display like CRT, with the advantage of independent asembled pixels free of focus, halation and moiré effects.

But, in the end, owners of the calibrated CRT will challenge this contrast issue, at least for very contrasted scenes: the light leaking from LCD and alike (LED, QLED) interferes with the result: one black image immediately adjacent to a white block will have light leaking (gray result). The CRT with black matrix will have a very dark result at same scene, and OLED completely dark.
I seen it even in hi-end QLED, even in the letterbox bar, when not coincides to light zone. In my aforementioned CRT TV, and in my Sony CRT monitor, I'm able to achieve 100% black here, and also abvously in my OLED TV.

And, the run-of-the-mill LCD have very noticeable light leakage even in today models, but consumer are used to it.