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Shadow mask

Another contender was General Electric's Penetron, which used three stacked layers of phosphor and attempted to change the power of the electron beam to write to the correct one.



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Chromatron

Masaru Ibuka refused, apparently displaying an intense personal feeling that the shadow mask design was fundamentally flawed.

Trinitron

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.