Trinitron

Sony KV-1320UB Trinitron from 1969

Trinitron was Sony's brand name for its line of aperture-grille-based CRTs used in television sets and computer monitors, one of the first television systems to enter the market since the 1950s. Constant improvement in the basic technology and attention to overall quality allowed Sony to charge a premium for Trinitron devices into the 1990s.[citation needed]

Patent protection on the basic Trinitron design ran out in 1996, and it quickly faced a number of competitors at much lower prices.

The name Trinitron was derived from trinity, meaning the union of three, and tron from electron tube, after the way that the Trinitron combined the three separate electron guns of other CRT designs into one.[1]

Close-up of phosphor bars on a 14" Sony Trinitron television
  1. ^ "You Guys Can Do It!". Sony Global. Sony. 2002. Archived from the original on 2010-06-25. Retrieved 4 May 2019.