Another day, another Trinitron

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by YamahaFreak

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?

Scratching my head a bit to try to recall - later non-Trinitron tubes often had common electrode voltages (except for the cathodes, which got separate RGB drive), but I'm not sure if any had a series of common electrostatic fields for all three beams the way the real Trinitron did.

Of course, only the Trinitron had the tensioned-grill shadow mask (with a cylindrical contour). All the other in-line tubes had a solid shadow mask, with short vertical slots and even shorter cross pieces defining the ends of the slots.