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You should be able to read it on OLED, which has instant response time, especially if it's a fancier one with 120fps or black frame insertion. The issues are more likely to be with your eyes than the screen. LED has more motion blur and occasionally flickery blacklights to deal with.



A perfect 120Hz OLED is still over 8ms of blur (MPRT), a crt is closer to 1.5ms MPRT.

There also are almost no OLEDs the right size for PC gaming.

Hopefully as VR tech becomes mainstream, display tech can improve up to the 1.5ms mark.


The issue with modern displays (OLED and LCD) is that they are sample-and-hold, which means that a frame will remain lit for its whole duration, leading to motion blur. Even a perfectly instantenous pixel response won't fix that.


At lower pixel or subpixel brightness OLED is still terribly affected by PWM strobing. Turn/move your head and you can see the on-off-on-off steps required for dimmer scenes or dark portions of a scene.




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