I think we are still several years away from flat panels being able to sinulate phosphor persistence and the strobed nature of CRTs. CRT phosphors decay with a time constant of 1-2 ms, so you'd want at least 1000 Hz to properly simulate it. Even if you couldn't get that fast you could at least get the meat of it with backlight strobing that has ~25% duty cycle. This gives incredible motion clarity but it is very rare on modern displays. I don't really know why. Display manufacturers should be giving users the option to reduce brightness by 75% for motion clarity if they want it. It will also be a while yet before modern displays can hit the product of motion clarity and brightness that CRTs have hit since before we were born.
Similar, but not exactly. The details matter. The strobing needs to be synchronous with the frames.
Adding flicker without the motion clarity benefit looks bad. Strobing in sync with content looks amazing. How many people complained about 60 Hz flicker on CRTs over their 70 year reign?
