The designers of older equipment that contained a CRT monitor rarely made the effort to design their own driver and deflection circuitry. Instead they were more likely to buy an off the shelf ...

A thin screen full of holes that adheres to the back of a color CRT ... mask onto the phosphor dots. There are generally more holes per inch than the maximum resolution obtainable from that monitor.

Would it have been a cut and dried from an engineering standpoint? Apparently not, as this hybrid LCD-CRT video monitor demonstrates. We’d honestly never heard of this particular design ...