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

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235 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 21 Jun 24 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sneak ◴[22 Jun 24 21:32 UTC] No.40762397[source]▶
My AIM username for a while was kw34hd1 which is the model of Sony’s first (and maybe last?) 1080i CRT. I recall it being around $25k too at the time.

34” diagonal, 196lb.

Edit: A googling suggests it was launched end of ‘98 for $9k. $17k in 2024 dollars.

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jeffbee ◴[22 Jun 24 21:41 UTC] No.40762449[source]▶
These kinds of TVs were under $2k a few years later. I had a Panasonic CT-34WX53 "Tau" display that I bought for $1600 in 2002.
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1. MBCook ◴[22 Jun 24 22:18 UTC] No.40762708[source]▶
I was seriously considering Sony’s 32” CRT for my first HDTV around 2006 or so. It must have been right about the tail end.

It may have had a better picture, at least for analog stuff which was most all of it at the time. But the biggest factor was size. At ~150-200 lbs I couldn’t move it and would need new furniture to hold it.

The LCD I bought probably weighed 40 pounds, was easy to move, and my existing furniture was fine. It was 720p only though.

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2. WWLink ◴[23 Jun 24 00:35 UTC] No.40763582[source]▶
IIRC, Sony CRTs also love blowing up their flyback transformer boards.