I remember when my parents offered to trade me their 32" Phillips-Magnavox for my puny little 27" because they were “trying to downsize”. I felt so fuckin cool playing Max Payne and Fable on my original Xbox.
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Those Viewsonic CRT monitors were amazing. I got one cheap from someone that was “upgrading”. As if you could upgrade from a Viewsonic in the early 2000s. That thing was a beast. By far the largest and heaviest monitor I’ve ever had.
There was a terrible period where pretty much every LCD screen you could get was 1080 horizontal lines. My two LCD monitors are from not long before that time. One is starting to fade and it’s nice to know that when I need to replace it I will be able to get something that is at least as good.
My friends parents had a 32" CRT in their living room on a massive stand and us kids had to lay right in front of it when watching TV which was always a little terrifying because it would have crushed us to death had it ever fallen.
That would be cool for playing console games on, but I sure wouldn’t want to have to move it.
I’m almost certain I’ve moved a CRT or two that were heavier than that.
80s/90s kids remember being able to throw their controllers at the TV without fear. (Console games on a console tv to console the cold war anxiety)
80s/90s kids remember being able to throw their controllers at the TV without fear.
Fuck, I never would think to throw my controller at the screen!
I also don’t ever throw my controllers in general. Why would I want to break them? Lol.
spoilt kids tantrum -> brain goes into standby
When you’re a small child and you get extremely frustrated about dying to the same boss one too many times in a row, you have to vent that somehow.
It only happened once, I got so frustrated I bit the controller and threw it. You can still see the bite marks. (I was at most 11 years old.)
I love my kid-gamer self.
I was really bad at games, but I would always chalk it up to “I’m just a kid and it’s okay to be bad.”
Things made in the 80s never broke.
survivorship bias
I once had a 38" in my 3rd floor apartment and had to move to another 3rd floor apartment… No elevators present.
Motherfucker was the operative word.
Yeah. I think products like that are designed for people who pay others to move it for them.
I was in my 20’s, had the bills handled, and my priorities in a funny place.
My parents had an old 42 (maybe bigger) inch “flat” screen Sony Trinitron CRT that could do 1080i for years.
Whenever they wanted to move it, it took multiple people, joining in on the move was a right of passage lmao
They would honestly still have it, if not for my brother…
Your parents were ballers then. The one in the video is the largest one made and 42 inch. And it cost $40000
If it did 1080i, I’m guessing it was a widescreen model. Done in the early 2000’s. I got a 36” trinitron for about $1600 that did 1080i/720p. Heavy as crap, but damn fine picture. Halo looked awesome.
https://crtdatabase.com/crts/sony
Doesn’t look like Sony made a 42". They did make a 43", which is what this story is about, but it was only 480p not 1080i. The largest 1080i CRT they made was the 34".
Hmm, I went through that entire link on gallery mode and I actually didn’t see my parents TV in there. I also couldn’t find it on a general Google search or Wikipedia
One of its defining features that I remember clearly, was it had a downward rectangle “paddle” for a power button that had that “fake vent” texture on it, and I didn’t see that on any of the wide screens on that link.
So either what my parents had is some sort of forgotten model, or I got the brand wrong, but I’m like 80% it was a Sony
I’m guessing it was a different brand if you remember the details that clearly. The fake vent texture is making me think Magnavox for some reason.
I really regret recycling my 32 inch Trinitron back in the mid-2000’s…
I had a 30inch 1080i flatscreen crt.
I loved that thing, it cost $1000 and I used it all the time.
I still have this one!
this just sent me down a nostalgia rabbithole.
in the late 90s and early 2000s my grandparents had two interesting Televisions in the house, one was a very large CRT TV that they kept using until the late 2000s or early 2010s. but the other was an ENORMOUS flatscreen that was so big it looked like a CRT on the back, I dont even know what kind of technology it was, Im assuming it wasn’t a CRT though if this one here in this video is the largest, because the one they had was 2-3 times its size horizontally. (they had it in the late 90s, Im g oing to assume it was an early version of a plasma but im not sure really)
I’m guessing it was a rear projection TV, maybe a DLP
its probbly the rear projection. it looked like this, but my memory tells me it was quite a bit bigger https://i.redd.it/ig6k6bngyaca1.jpg
edit - its actually probably that same model i linked or a bigger version of the same line, its an RCA, I know they had a lot of those throughout the years, my grandfather ran a furinture, electronics, appliance and computer store in the early 2000s and the house was always full of Panasonic, RCA, and “Zenith” electronics. As well as the occasional thing from the more well known brands like Hitachi, Toshiba, and Sony.
but Zenith and RCA were dominant there
double edit - it appears RCA went defunct before I was even born, so if it was an RCA it would have been something he bought used, or had kicking around from before I was born.
