/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1865128
>honeycomb pattern
It's a shadow mask. It's what most CRTs were made with. You're not going to be able to see visible scanlines on such a small screen, especially one with a shadow mask; I'm not even sure how clear they are on smaller aperture grille based CRTs.

For comparison, left is a 20'' PVM(aperture grille) right is a 13'' GXTV(shadowmask)
>>1861386
>>1860574
>>1860212
Is a 35'' shadowmask.

>>1768657
>isn't it more about manufacturer of display
/vr/ has some real lover for Sony sets, but that isn't to say other models aren't good as well. They just happened to stay, more or less consistently good for the last 25 or so years of CRT production where many other manufactures either went to shit or were bought out and then went to shit; As such, they're a bit more of a safe bet when searching.

>I know jack shit if Sony was making their own tubes
They were, right up until the end. Until ~1995, no one else was legally allowed to make Trinitron style "aperture grille" CRTs.

Aperture grille sets like the Trinitron and it's late copycats like the Diamondtron have different style pictures than shadowmask based CRTs that most other manufactures released.

This is the only personally taken comparison of the two I have on hand at the moment.

I've also noticed that the ® doesn't seem to resolve correctly in S-Video and presumably RGB; Not sure if this is just on Trinitrons or all displays capable of said signals.