Video Asylum

Posted by AbeCollins (A) on January 11, 2004 at 09:58:10

In Reply to: About Trinitron. posted by SysInfo on January 05, 2004 at 20:32:32:

The Trinitron was INVENTED by Sony and launched in Japan in 1968 in a 13" TV. Trinitron technology uses a single-gun, three-beam aperture grille, and a cylindrical flat screen. Sony later introduced this technology in TV's for the USA and other markets.

The Trinitron was the world's first TV receiver ever to be awarded an Emmy. The Emmy Award is to the TV industry what the Academy Award is to the motion picture industry--the highest of all honors. The award is presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to acknowledge television's best programs, actors, producers and TV stations AS WELL AS ground-breaking technology for broadcast hardware systems.

Sony later used the flat Trinitron technology in large computer graphics screens while others still used those old looking rounded CRT screens. I know. I worked in the professional computer graphics industry for 9 years at Silicon Graphics. Everyone wanted the large flat Sony monitors - nothing else would do.

The only reason you see this Trinitron technology used by others today is because Sony's PATENT RAN OUT.