Masaru Ibuka refused, apparently displaying an intense personal feeling that the shadow mask design was fundamentally flawed.
Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru, April 11, 1908, Nikkō City, Japan – December 19, 1997, Tokyo) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony.
Masaru Ibuka, Sony's president and co-founder, steadfastly refused to develop a system based on RCA's shadow mask design, which he considered technically deficient.
Masaru Ibuka | Masaru Tomita | Masaru Kato | Masaru Hashimoto | Masaru Emoto | Masaru Arai |