Comment by jsjohnst
1 year ago
I had one of the 36” Sony Wega Trinitron CRTs for years. Weighed well over 200lbs, which combined with the shape, made it a really “fun” thing to move.
1 year ago
I had one of the 36” Sony Wega Trinitron CRTs for years. Weighed well over 200lbs, which combined with the shape, made it a really “fun” thing to move.
The geometry was a killer when trying to move it because you couldn't wrap your arms around the thing. When faced with moving one by myself down the stairs to my apartment, I was forced to (carefully) roll it downhill.
Relatable!
When I was about 14, my mom got a new TV and I got the 27” Trinitron. I was simultaneously excited and terrified. I would have to move it.
My arms were too short to get around it. Somehow we made it down the basement stairs without help. By “we” I mean the TV and I. I got it across the room and onto the TV stand.
33 year old me would definitely need an Advil after.
I'll add my voice. I bought one from a friend for $36 (a dollar an inch) while waiting for flatscreens to come down in price. It bent my TV stand and I ended up keeping it a couple extra years because I didn't want to move it out of the house. Eventually we put it on Craigslist for free (with a warning about the weight) and two very large men showed up and carried it away.
Me too. It was an anchor. I had a couple of movers nearly drop it once. Getting it out of my house was a great accomplishment (I felt like a great weight had been lifted). At the time it was a definite improvement in video quality (IIRC my first real 1080p, coupled with HDTV) and I still find it crazy I can buy larger, better screens that are lighter and cheaper. Clearly, you can scale up tubes but it's just not going to win against LCD or LED.
It wasn't actually 1080p but 1080i, meaning it interlaced each field. It worked well for CRTs because of the way they operated, but it is a different standard.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FD_Trinitron/WEGA
27 inch Wega here, dating myself.
Mom: "Dont sit too close to that thing"
Fast forward 20 years, a 27 inch monitor is right up on my face, contemplating a 32 or 43.
> contemplating a 32 or 43
Definitely a 32. 43 is a bit much.
Edit: Unless you're an office manager and plan on watching football most of the day.
Same here, 32". I'm using a swiveling TV wall mount also, it really frees up a lot of space under the monitor.
I use a 55" 4k curved TV. The upper portion is too high to do computer work but I move unused windows up there. It's on a desk opposite the couch so I also use it as a TV.
Ignore the other commenter, there is no such thing as too big as long as there are enough pixels!
> there is no such thing as too big as long as there are enough pixels!
4K is absolutely too few pixels for 55” for me. To go 55”, I’d need at minimum 2.5x that many personally. As such a thing doesn’t exist, I use two 27” 5K monitors and endure the bezel divider.
I had that same one.
Fun fact: it had a special "anamorphic" mode. You know how widescreen movies on 4:3 displays are cropped? Someone had the idea that maybe instead of cropping them, you could use all of the resolution must just direct the electron beam to display it on middle 3/4 (vertically) of the screen. There, an extra 33% better vertical resolution and brightness for free?
There weren't a whole lot of DVDs mastered that way, but when you could get one, and your DVD player supported it, and your TV supported it, it looked freaking fantastic.
That’s actually not true, the majority of widescreen DVDs were mastered in Anamorphic format. The players themselves were then responsible for squishing down to letterboxed or doing an automated form of “pan and scan” which most people thought was terrible. If you were lucky though, you had a TV capable of doing the anamorphic adjustment and then you’d get the higher resolution as you stated.
32 is enough that you need to rotate your head if you want to see all parts of the screen. I have a 32" 4k screen and its a bit annoying, I get cricks in my neck, so I tend to only really use a centre 1080p sized area on the screen, with my winXP era wallpaper showing through around it.
Tbh I'll prefer 27" 4k.
43 might be a bit better because you can move the screen a little farther away.
It’s a factor of size and distance. I have an 80cm deep desk with a 32” and it’s fine.
In fact it’s nicer in that I can sit a little further back than a 27” which ultimately is better for my eyes.
Surely it depends on the sitting distance? I have 2 27" 19:10 screens next to each other and do not need to move my head to see all parts of the screen.
I have a 40, it's great. Fewer pixels and width than my previous 3x 27" 4k setup, but more height.
I had a 36" RCA. https://lowendmac.com/2019/rca-mm36100-amazing-under-the-rad... 190 pounds. It could do 800x600. The Dreamcast with a VGA adapter looked incredible on it.
I found a 32" on the curb, heaved it into the back of my truck, and got it home.
It worked great, I thought about how much of a pain it would be to drag into the house and up the stairs to the gaming room, and decided I'd just find a 19-27" to use for old consoles.
Ended up selling it on Craigslist for $250.
I had the 32" high-def XBR model (it did 1080i which WRAL in Raleigh was broadcasting). It weighed 211 pounds, of which about 3/4 of it was the front glass. Like the other poster, when it was time for it to leave, I had to carefully slide it down the stairs on some cardboard. Just too heavy and awkward to carry.
I bought it at Best Buy. They had put it off on an aisle and not next to all the new LCD and Plasma TVs they were selling. Likely because it had a much better picture than those early flat-screens and was $1200 vs the others that started at $1800 and quickly went up from there.
We inherited one of these from my in-laws, it was a beast. After about a year, it finally died so my son and I loaded it up and took it to Best Buy for free recycling. (this was about 15 years ago.) When the clerk come out with a trolley to collect the tv, we offered to help, but he said he would get it and that was that. I was impressed.
Me too, I loved that thing. One of the first things I saved up for when I started earning my own money, so it was extra special.
I had the fully "decked out" version with better speakers, two tuners (picture in picture or two pictures side by side), and tons of other features.
Glorious picture quality, and the tube was completely flat (but still very deep, of course).
My BIL had one of those. He asked me to help bring in his new bazillion inch LCD so I drove over. Turned out the first task was to move that old CRT into his basement...
my wife just got an enterprise grade treadmill (used from a fitness center) that weighs 600 lbs. moving that thing around is a nightmare.
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