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Old 03-31-2010, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Kiwick View Post
In fact, most European color CRTs had bare aluminium showing between the phosphor stripes or dots,
Philips continued to make them this way until the mid noughties when they finally quit making CRTs.

Early videocolor 110° short neck PIL CRTs had their phosphor stripe pitch increasing dramatically at the sides of the screen (to facilitate purity) and they had a ridiculous amount of shiny bare aluminium showing between the stripes!
Very interesting! Thanks for the info.
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