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

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235 points rbanffy | 4 comments | 21 Jun 24 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
1. Eric_WVGG ◴[23 Jun 24 09:26 UTC] No.40765994[source]▶
> In Japan, it sold for 2.6 million yen, but in the United States, it retailed for $40,000, a significant markup. To be fair, shipping them across the Atlantic and then throughout the United States must have been expensive.

Yes, I imagine the cost of shipping something from Japan to the States across the Atlantic would be nothing to sniff at.

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2. rasz ◴[23 Jun 24 14:57 UTC] No.40767914[source]▶
Sea transport is really cheap in bulk. Somehow Japanese cars didnt fetch $15K premium after crossing the pond in the nineties.
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3. wkat4242 ◴[23 Jun 24 15:10 UTC] No.40768034[source]▶
The OP's point was more that the Atlantic is the wrong pond to ship across from Japan :)
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4. jgalt212 ◴[23 Jun 24 17:45 UTC] No.40769170{3}[source]▶
Sony's competitive disadvantage was it found the Northwest Passage before others.