[rca2000]

PERHAPS(and maybe someone can help me here) a shadow-mask tube would had looked too coarse and grainy up that close to the eye, and that had to go another route. After all, color LCD-s often look grainy in VF's today. Maybe the panasonic tube was just not sharp enough at that close eye distance, or such.

But STILL -- LOOK at ALL of this stuff in here!! (on the one board, the white squares indicate SMD chips underneath, and there is a couple of others on the top board, too!!)

I do feel it would be difficult to use this in a normal color tv set, due to the external indexing of the CRT.