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She's onto something. CRT displays and VHS recordings are very imperfect in the best way; they lie to us so sweetly. There's a lot of production mistakes and fakery that is really hard to spot with old tech. These things stand out in ways unforeseen on digital remasters all the time - it kind of kills the magic of it all, really.
CRT displays with old pixel art are something I taught her about very early on. Scanlines made things look different; and art looked better on CRTs because they were designed with them in mind.
In particular, dithering was a very common way of blending colours together in old video games and programs despite hardware limitations preventing more than a few colours per block of pixels. The CRT display helped blend them together since the individual pixels weren't as clear as on a modern LCD display. A lot of old games look noticeably worse on a LCD display compared to a CRT.