The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

Sony had all the coolest TVs in that era—one of the last great ones, which I've only seen in person _once_ at a broadcast TV tower site (it's still there today, and works!) was the KD-34XBR970[1]. It was 'only' 34", but it weighed nearly 200 lbs.

[1] https://youtu.be/W_U9pFfXjYA?t=614

I believe my friend still has our 32" 1080i tube TV kicking around. All 180lbs of it. has HDMI and everything if I recall. Old consoles look awesome on it and if you can get your PC drivers to play ball games on that also look stellar, but text looks like trash.

It was also a Trinitron.

I really do miss my RCA mm36100. 190 pounds. 2 VGA inputs. It could do 800x600 progressive scan. The Dreamcast with a VGA adapter really did look incredible on it!

https://lowendmac.com/2019/rca-mm36100-amazing-under-the-rad...

https://archive.org/details/manualsbase-id-145505

Great TV. Iirc the last Triniton tube produced. After moving it 3 times over 15 years I sold mine to a guy during covid for $20 so he could play Time Crisis.

Think I had this TV. It was an absolute unit and took 2-3 people to move.

An N64 and Mario Kart completed the setup.

My friends dad had one of those. Incredible picture on that recent tvs can reach.

I had one of these. Somehow got it on clearance at Circuit City when it was being EOL'd. I must have hit that window just right, because I got it for something like $450?

Managed to sell it about five years back for $200, and someone picked it up from my house and carried it out of my basement. It was a win all around. They got an amazing display for their old consoles, and despite my fondness for the same, I just wanted to be rid of the thing because I was prepping to move and wanted to rid the house of CRTs.