> The blur type that "adds fake detail" that people sometimes try to emulate is one > that sends the R, G and B to slightly different areas incorrectly. I have one crt > that does it particularly badly (pic).
That's misconvergence. A good tech can fix it pretty quickly.
And yes, people seem to think these CRT emulations aren't authentic unless they dial up settings that in real life would correspond to all dead capacitors and an errant Time Lord trying to suck the edges of the screen into a vortex.
My new favorite examples of "if you ever see a real monitor doing this, run for your fucking life" come from the Supermodel forum, although it's ElSemi's Model 2 emulator being waterboarded in this instance:
Inevitably, someone will reply to this post thinking those look perfectly fine.