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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: 2.022s | source
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UnreachableCode ◴[22 Jun 24 21:59 UTC] No.40762574[source]▶
So what were “big screen TVs” (which my family never owned) that appeared in movies and tv? I feel like they looked more lightweight than this so I’m assuming they were like Plasma screens? Or maybe that technology was after the pop culture I’m referring to
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MBCook ◴[22 Jun 24 22:15 UTC] No.40762686[source]▶
Late in the 90s we had a 27” CRT. That was absolutely sold as a big screen. I don’t think you could get much bigger.

Past that you had projection TVs. They could get way bigger but the picture was also dimmer and perhaps not as sharp? I only remember being around one a few times, we never had one.

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1. hulitu ◴[24 Jun 24 18:01 UTC] No.40778940[source]▶
> Late in the 90s we had a 27” CRT. That was absolutely sold as a big screen. I don’t think you could get much bigger.

CRTs were 4:3 aspect ratio. I remember that a 19" CRT was about the same size as a 21" LCD with 16:9 aspect ratio.

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2. rasz ◴[26 Jun 24 12:36 UTC] No.40799284[source]▶
Height, it was same height until you rotated LCD killing this nonsense argument :)