Talk:Trinitron

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Vivitron wasn't a knock off at all - they were just rebranded Sony Trinitrons. I was staring at one for a while, thinking "hey, that looks like a Trinitron". Then I looked at the back: "Manufactured by Sony Corp."

Well, this is Wikipedia, so you know what to do: be bold!
Atlant 17:58, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Trinitron

The Trinitron CRT was developed by CBS labs. SONY was the only company that would build the CRTs for CBS.

Do you have a citation for that fact? If you have one, please be bold and put the fact and the citation in the article.
Atlant 19:54, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] That line

What's the deal with that horizontal black line that goes across the screen on trinitron monitors? That should be discussed in this article. Rm999

You're probably talking about the stabilizing wire, which is discussed in the aperture grille article. BioTube 04:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
And, of course, little monitors have one while bigger monitors usually have two.
Atlant 13:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Many consumers considered the so-called "trinitron line" visible in many Sony CRTs to be essentially a major design flaw, which has acted as a deterrent to the purchase of an otherwise good quality monitor. As common as complaints are about this line, it really should be mentioned in this article. -Grammaticus Repairo 16:28, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Heh, only after reading that did I remember the lines are actually there on my Trinitron. :) --Zilog Jones 23:27, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
"Ignorance is bliss", or so they say... ;) -Grammaticus Repairo 17:01, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Size isn't everything

Unfortunately I was not fortunate to have the experience of using an authentic Sony Trinitron, I had an 15" LG FST that eventually burnt out and I had to replace it with an LCD. Due to Sony's reputation, I got one of their 19" screens, and have not been disappointed, the colour being good, sharp, and the dot pitch superb for an LCD, viewable from virtually any angle and consider it even better than my 26" LCD Bravia TV, which I find dark scenes difficult to see from even small vertical angles, particularly when looking up at the screen, and there is a slightly annoying brightness balancing effect that seems to make blacks look grey, and it has some flickering in some instances. I was just wondering what size screens of Trinitron's were available. Do Sony still make them and are they still available now on a niche basis ? If not, have they sold the production lines to another company that makes them ? I have found some aspects of the picture on good old CRT's to be better than LCD's, and I crave them as a vinyl connoisseur craves the stylus and turntable. It seems to be an increasing challenge to find CRT's, particularly good ones, with many manufacturers ceasing CRT production in favour of LCD's. Maybe this will all be history in the future if OLED or Field Effect Displays ever get to market with a picture quality superior in all ways than both CRT's and LCD's, however I am surprised to find absence of a technology which still provides a product with significant advantages over it's successor. The inventions of the CD and DVD never brought the absence of Philips Audio Tape and VHS, let alone vinyl. --Minotaur500 (talk) 23:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trinitron may be back

Sony is very sketchy about this, but from what my Japanese friends tell me, they are planning to re-introduce the Trinitron line using FED technology. In essence, the CRT modified to operate in the space constraints of LCD/Plasma, but without any of the drawbacks. No word yet on if there would be the "horrid" black lines (scare quotes to mock silly people who complained about that). LCD-haters of the world rejoice, we finally have something that will spell the end of LCD on the desktop forever! --130.127.121.188 (talk) 20:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

My Trinitron boldly displays the date of your post as “1 April”. Does this have anything to do with the stated facts? I read on the web that FEDs are still going to be digital, an array of finite quantity pixels. This leaves us with the same disadvantage of flat panels vs aperture grille: native resolution. Trinitrons on the other hand have no defined sampling pitch on the vertical direction and are comparable regular CRTs on the horizontal. -- J7n (talk) 02:18, 24 May 2008 (UTC)