I don't know what type of LCD is being used. Many LCD monitors can make 256 brightness levels. Some can do 1024 or 4k levels. It is hard to find a 2 level LCD display that is more than character basted.The LCD uses pixels. A pixel is either on or off.
My hobby scope can take pictures. Do you mean that ?If I had the computer I would get a scope picture of the video and syncs running a CRT.
Then get a picture of the video into the LCD.
My guess is that you have 4 volage levers going into the monitors.
sync, black, white, bright. I think the LCD sees white and bright as the same thing. Why?
1) The video has too much signal. (reduce the amount of video)
2) Turn down the brightness and or contrast.
Your HSYNC and/or VSYNC signals are the wrong voltage, polarity and/or frequency.Today finally got may hands on VGA computer monitor. Nothing happened. Monitor reported "No Signal" and was gone to sleep land. Not a blink.
Interesting why is that ?
Yes.My hobby scope can take pictures. Do you mean that ?


Question is how reliable they are at this age.