Comment by MBCook
2 years ago
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.
My impression is that projection TVs reflect/diffuse even more of ambient light than regular CRTs, making black areas of the image look gray (regular CRTs already reflect more light than LCD-like monitors, though CRTs could be tinted to improve contrast at the cost of brightness).
CRT TVs up to 36” were widely available (although expensive) in the 90s. Projection sets usually started at 42 or 43”.
> 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.
Height, it was same height until you rotated LCD killing this nonsense argument :)