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Zenith
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Looking on the WWW, Mitsubishi made a few 61" CRT TVs. With their high cost and weight, few if any of these outsize CRT TVs can have been sold. It seems more like an attempt to gain bragging rights than to produce a profitable product.

I remember helping someone install a huge CRT TV, I think in 2004. It took two of us to lift it. It may have been a 34" model.

I certainly don't miss big CRT based computer monitors.
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Yeah, my 28" flat widescreen weighs a ton and I thought it amazingly large, at the time I bought it (plasmas existed by then but were ludicrously expensive)
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My 50" LG is flipping heavy, I would not be too happy about wall mounting it on a stud board wall that's for sure. :o
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My friend had I think a 32" CRT set. He and I have moved it up and down stairs several times over the years at his wife's behest; it's definitely got some gravity in it. The last time we moved it, I was sorely tempted to drop it on her!

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In 1990 I was using a computer with a 21" monitor. Big, heavy, but not too much to pick up, awkward and very expensive. We had an office move, so I picked it up and was carrying it to the new location. On the way there I touched a screw head on the bottom and had a shock. It must have been accumulated static which had originated in the EHT, which was around 25kV I think. How I managed not to drop it is still a mystery.
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I remember back in the day a friend of mine had a brand new fairly large 28" FD Trinitron. So he's sitting there watching it and the wood-worm infested floor gave way. The thing went straight through and landed on top of the people downstairs' television. That was quite a mess to sort out. Lots of insurance and lease issues! :lol:

Fortunately no-one was hurt. Now a 55" TV weighs less than half of it!

Biggest thing I had is attached....
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bd139 wrote: Tue Dec 24, 2024 10:18 pm I remember back in the day a friend of mine had a brand new fairly large 28" FD Trinitron. So he's sitting there watching it and the wood-worm infested floor gave way. The thing went straight through and landed on top of the people downstairs' television. That was quite a mess to sort out. Lots of insurance and lease issues! :lol:

Fortunately no-one was hurt. Now a 55" TV weighs less than half of it!

Biggest thing I had is attached....

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