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Article: Television: reinventing the cathode-ray tube.
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- Popular Science
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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The colors are a bright and crisp as those seen on a conventional picture tube. Only the shallow depth of the cabinet of Matsushita's Flat Vision TV told me I was seeing something new in flat-panel displays.
The Flat Vision picture matches that of the best conventional TVs because Matsushita uses the same principle--in effect, flattening the cathoderay tube ["Best of What's New," Dec. '93]. In both a conventional CRT and Flat Vision, the image the viewer sees is made up of glowing red, green, and blue phosphor dots painted on the inside surface of the glass screen. These dots glow when hit by a stream of electrons, their brightness varying according to the ...