TrinitronWEGA

TrinitronWEGA is a marketing designation used by Sony to refer to a line of high-end CRT televisions that combined the Trinitron aperture-grille CRTs with Sony's WEGA branding. The term began to appear in the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, aligning Sony's Trinitron display technology with its premium WEGA line.

Trinitron technology uses a single electron gun and an aperture grille to produce bright, sharp images with good contrast and wide viewing angles. WEGA branding signified Sony’s emphasis on image clarity and overall picture quality. Models marketed as TrinitronWEGA typically incorporated Sony’s advanced picture-processing circuits, offered multiple inputs including component video, and featured on-screen menus and remote control operation. They were commonly available in several screen sizes, often in the 27 to 36-inch range, with some larger sets.

In the market, TrinitronWEGA sets were positioned as premium CRT televisions during the transition period from CRTs to flat-panel displays. As LCD and plasma technologies gained prominence in the 2000s, Sony gradually phased out the TrinitronWEGA line, though the WEGA branding continued to appear on various later Sony televisions as a broad marketing label.

See also: Trinitron, WEGA, Sony.