"Jason D." wrote in message
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On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 22:34:59 GMT, "Dave M."
wrote:

I've always attributed these softness problems to the three beam system.
However, three beam tubes such as Toshibas can be much brighter.
Panasonics
look dim to me.

Three beam system? Even sony wega still has three guns. Softness or
hardness of details comes from both circuit (filtering & shaping
waveforms) and quality of flyback transformer to supply stable & clean
focus supply.

Sony developed an alternative tube technology known as Trinitron. It
combined the three separate electron guns into one device: Sony refers to
this as a Pan Focus gun. Most interesting of all, Trinitron tubes were made
from sections of a cylinder, vertically flat and horizontally curved, as
opposed to conventional tubes using sections of a sphere which are curved in
both axes. Rather than grouping dots of red, green and blue phosphor in
triads, Trinitron tubes lay their coloured phosphors down in uninterrupted
vertical stripes.


I know because RCA CRT were used in so many brands, Daewoo has same
CRT (exact same part number) as in other JVC and RCA 27" sets and both
JVC and RCA has good sharpness while Daewoo has nasty too soft look,
ditto to Philips's even on their newest flat CRT, looks nasty and
cheap where flat crt is expected to give stunning pix and quality but
wasn't.

Cheers,

Wizard



In terms
of design, personally, I like the newest Sony sets as they seem to be
somewhat more robust, but time will tell in this matter.

Leonard Caillouet