Color CRTs have three different phosphors, and the beams have to fire at the correct color phosphor. The best part of the video is the part where they tear apart an actual CRT, something you don ...

[bitluni]’s laser-based display pretending to be a an old-school vector CRT. Phosphor-based displays like CRTs rely on the phosphor to emit light for a set amount of time after being activated ...

Used for large displays such as wall-sized advertisements on the sides of buildings, Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) is reminiscent of the CRT, but uses lasers instead of an electron gun to activate ...

CRT-based monitors and TVs used this method whereby electrons were beamed (scanned) onto the phosphor coating on the screen a line at a time from left to right starting at the top-left corner.