dot pitch

hardware The distance between a dot and the closest dot of

the same colour (red, green or blue) on a color CRT. Dot

pitch is typically from 0.28 to 0.51 mm but large presentation

monitors may go up to 1.0 mm. The smaller the dot pitch, the

crisper the image, 0.31 or less provides a sharp image,

especially when displaying text.

Dot pitch measurements between conventional tubes and Sony's

Trinitron tubes are roughly, but not exactly comparable.

Sony's CRTs use vertical stripes, not dots, and its

measurement is the distance between stripes, not the diagonal

distance between dots.

["The Computer Glossary", Alan Freedman].

(1995-12-14)