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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: 1.205s | 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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1. qingcharles ◴[22 Jun 24 23:32 UTC] No.40763212[source]▶
They made a 40" CRT. I used to find them for free all the time on Craigslist because people just wanted them gone.

Here's a pic of one:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VkcAAOSw1jpij-aq/s-l1600.webp

I found a brand new one from someone's house where the person had died a long time ago and three of us lugged it back to my house (three people can barely lift it). I grabbed it for light gun games, but it uses some sort of digital filtering on all the inputs which stops gun games from detecting the scan. I was going to take it apart and figure out how to bypass it, but I lost it in my divorce lol.

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2. masto ◴[23 Jun 24 00:22 UTC] No.40763490[source]▶
That’s the one I had. What a beast. I gave it away around 2009 when I got my first LCD.