Great pics! Is there any chance of getting some close up shots so we can see the phosphor patterns? Also you should be able to screenshot your phone screen showing the picture youve taken of the CRT and post the screen grab directly on here too rather than having to go through Imgur.
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Thank you very much, I will try a second round of photos next time I go to my brother in law’s house, the TV is his, this weekend we were with my family as a guest, he had this TV in the cellar and I convinced him to put it back into play. As soon as I have new material I will share it with you with great pleasure, perhaps using the system you recommended.
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Just get your wife or sister to steal it for you - it doesnt matter if it causes family strife - CRTs come first.
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Just be aware that PS3 connection always means interlaced output.
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MajorPainCactus I don’t think he has enough money for a divorce, lol 
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Jamirus actually saw something strange in the reproduction of the images, but we had nothing else to attack, and luckily he had previously installed a version of RetroArch inside the hard disk
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These are some useful looking shots!
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Another somewhat unique find, though I’m guessing this falls out of the rubric of somewhat realistic possible reproduction with what’s available: NEC ChromaClear monitor, ie. PC monitor with ultra fine slot mask
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Digging the low- to mid res tvl shadow masks for monitors, the lowest TVL given so far I’ve found is 400 TVL for a 9". Usually, the small low-res ones tend to be slot, but here’s a 450 TVL 10" TM10-17RA with dot:
The 20" 600 TVL TM20-18R would be a great display for my room 
Panasonic BT-H1390Y 13" (560 TVL), pictures aren’t as great as above mostly, but I like the last Megaman X4 shot here. The mask makes it look like the colors explode around the screen.
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Hi! Nice thread . This is my CRT Model Sanyo CE14AT08-C
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Absolutely amazing photos - really clear dot mask there. I think we need 8K TVs to do this justice.
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You know I wouldnt have thought a Sanyo woild produce such a good picture - Im completely wrong as thats fantastic.
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Well not really, with 4k you can get it so close. Look the setting I made in this thread with mega bezel 
One is my real Sanyo and the other emulation with mega bezel.
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I think @MajorPainTheCactus was replying to Jamirus’s post on the dotmask photos- 8k is probably right given the phosphor count per scanline.
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Well I’ll still think we don’t need that much to play really close. Maybe it would the perfect thing, but until that happens… 4K looks really good 
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Yeah I think dot mask is the only hold out for accurate mask emulation - one day though.
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Browsing the https://crtdatabase.com/, lots of interesting info and often also pictures with games running there. Most not that close, but here a few that are:
https://crtdatabase.com/crts/barco/barco-gd-33
https://crtdatabase.com/crts/jvc/jvc-dt-v1700cg not only multiformat (does up to 1080i) it also uses an aperture grille mask.
https://crtdatabase.com/crts/jvc/jvc-tm-1400su 450 TVL slot. Seems similar to standard Amiga monitors, but slightly bigger, and no RGB.
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900 TVL vs 600 TVL (both PVMs around 20 inches): save for reference!
https://www.instagram.com/stories/retrobigini/3075687353174494723/
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