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Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:56 pm
by Zenith
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.
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 1:02 pm
by AVGresponding
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)
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:53 pm
by Specmaster
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.
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 8:22 pm
by Cubdriver
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!
-Pat
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 10:15 pm
by Zenith
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.
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 10:18 pm
by bd139
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!
Fortunately no-one was hurt. Now a 55" TV weighs less than half of it!
Biggest thing I had is attached....
fixed.jpeg
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 11:28 pm
by mansaxel
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!
Fortunately no-one was hurt. Now a 55" TV weighs less than half of it!
Biggest thing I had is attached....
fixed.jpeg
I have 2 off Beovision LX2802 in the garage. And a small Sanyo whose claim to fame is a BNC video input (PAL).