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Old 03-31-2010, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Kiwick View Post
Blackstripe is Toshiba's trademark for "black matrix"

Basically, there's a stripe of black graphite between the actual phosphor stripes, instead of the bare aluminium of conventional tubes, to eliminate reflections
a note: I have heard of some European tubes that actually had bare aluminum showing, but I think most tubes either had the whole face covered with phosphors or had black matrix.
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