HDTV Almanac - End of an Era: Sony Trinitron

Started by alfredpoor Mar 5, 2008 1 posts
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Traditional picture tube televisions have the three electron guns arranged in a triangle. The resulting geometry requires a screen that is curved both horizontally and vertically. 40 years ago, Sony engineers realized that you could put the three guns in a line, and use vertical stripes of phosphors instead of circular dots. And this resulted [...]

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