In those photos I see an image that is very similar to what I've seen from Sony Trinitron PC monitors in 120hz modes, or the various PVM models I've owned. A razor sharp, thickly scanlined image. Not that this is a bad thing but...
IMO I've always preferred the smoother, slightly blurrier graphics that come from older CRT tech, such as those that used dot triads or chromaclear rather than stripes. On those it seemed like the scanlines were not nearly as delineated. It's not as if you're actually losing detail at 240p. All the pixels are there and easily counted, it's just that the black scanlines between them are not as apparent.
However, from what I gather you're saying that the overly scanlined effect you would get from a Sony PC CRT monitor is not there? How can that be when this monitor has such an extremely fine pitch?
Note: all the references to PC monitors assume running in true 240p modes at double the vertical scan rate.
Here's an example from a thread at BYOAC on the subject
old hantarex 9110
![Image](http://images.arianchen.de/hantarex-320x240-60.jpg)
old Mitsubishi AM-3501R
![Image](http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii18/megaultrasuper/SSPX0018.jpg)
newer m2c
![Image](http://images.arianchen.de/m2c-320x240-120.jpg)
modern 21" CRT PC monitor
![Image](http://images.arianchen.de/step-320x240-120.jpg)
Is it possible you could post up a pic of this R from R-type Leo for comparision?