Another day, another Trinitron

[YamahaFreak]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Sony was stretching the concept when they called the Trinitron a "one-gun" tube. It was a three-beam tube like all others, but some of the electrodes were common to all three beams. None of these had a single emitter.

Maybe I should have worded that differently.

Rather, were the other Trinitron-like tubes more like a traditional in-line tube, or did they have a gun design similar to that of the Trinitron?