News Console modder hunts down world's largest CRT TV — saves it from noodle restaurant demolition death half the way around the globe

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The stand might be advisable so you don't accidentally crush a less well-prepared piece of furniture.
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Imagine if it had been available as a console TV... 😱
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A modder managed to save an extremely rare 43-inch Sony Trinitron KX-45ED1 from an untimely ending in Japan and import it to the US.

Console modder hunts down world's largest CRT TV — saves it from noodle restaurant demolition death half the way around the globe : Read more
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My father actually bought one of these 43" Trinitrons. It was the TV and stand, but they both had a walnut brown stained oak veneer case, and the stand had a glass door with one of the invisible catches where you push on the glass to open. He purchased the damned thing in 1992 or 1993 from Nantucket Sound in Hyannis, MA - mainly to annoy my mother, I think. It was a huge nuisance to move, when he retired to Daytona Beach. It could very well still be around there as it was an attractive piece of furniture. We had a yard sale after he died and someone must have bought it...
 
Only 43 inches? I've personally seen bigger ones at my uncle's house. 70-80 inches. The thing basically took up a whole wall.
 
These things are an absolute bear to move.
I've had the displeasure of helping do so twice, proper moving equipment is needed for this honker.

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Only 43 inches? I've personally seen bigger ones at my uncle's house. 70-80 inches. The thing basically took up a whole wall.
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The larger ones back in the day were projector TVs.
No where near as good as CRTs were in terms of picture quality.
 
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Regarding mass, a popular domestic TV set like a 27-inch model might weigh about 50kg or 110 pounds
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Um... maybe there were some 27" that heavy, but my 29" presentation monitor weighed about that much or a touch less. It could do 1024x768, but not very well, so I mostly ran it at 800x600 and used it to watch DVDs or similar resolution videos.

I've got to say it's lucky the phosphors in that thing were apparently still in good shape! In a restaurant like that, you could imagine them just leaving the TV on all day, every day!
 
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Um... maybe there were some 27" that heavy, but my 29" presentation monitor weighed about that much or a touch less. It could do 1024x768, but not very well, so I mostly ran it at 800x600 and used it to watch DVDs or similar resolution videos.

I've got to say it's lucky the phosphors in that thing were apparently still in good shape! In a restaurant like that, you could imagine them just leaving the TV on all day, every day!
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About 10-12 yrs ago, a friend gave me a 36"(?) Sony.

It was a bit over 200 lbs.

Almost dropped it, leveraging it onto a waist high table.
I was walking funny for a week.
 
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Based on a quick web search, it appears this model can only run at up to 480p. That's not surprising, based on its age (although Japan was tinkering with HDTV long before the rest of the world).

The internet says something about it having a built-in deinterlacer, which I hope you can bypass, because that's pretty much the antithesis of what console gamers want! If you're going to tolerate such processing (and the latency it adds), you might as well get a newer TV with a much better deinterlacer and a "game mode" that keeps latency to a minimum.
 
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USAFRet said:
About 10-12 yrs ago, a friend gave me a 36"(?) Sony.

It was a bit over 200 lbs.

Almost dropped it, leveraging it onto a waist high table.
I was walking funny for a week.
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That tracks, this one is over 400lbs and even with multiple people was ungodly w/o proper gear.

We gave my buddy crap on it for years - it's free he said, there's enough of us he said.
I'm not sure what was more jacked up afterward, our backs or the dude's place we got it from.
 
We had possibly the last line of Sony Widescreen flat panel Wega tv's. The thing weighed 200lbs and was 34, maybe 36" at best, and ATSC. My Mom finally got rid of it only 5 yrs ago, still working perfectly fine.
 
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I bought one off of Craigslist. Stand included. Didn't fully comprehend just how much it would weigh. Drove up in my Cavalier convertible, which I used like a pickup truck. The seller and myself managed to roll the set into the back seat. Top went up over it. Got it home, and three of us managed to lift it out. Set it in place, turned it on, and it was awesome. Eventually got a big plasma screen to replace it. Then the problem was what to do with the Sony....back in the convertible, off to an electronics recycling event, and FOUR teenage football-type volunteers struggled to unload it, and it was gone. It really was a good TV.
 
In 1991 bought a 35 inch Mitsubishi and so heavy . I took the shelf I bought for it and flipped it over and cut a matching piece of 1 inch plywood screwed it to the bottom and put casters on the darn thing. It was still going strong until 2015 and when it was time for a move no one wanted to help move it. That's where it ended.

Man being a 43 inch once set up must have been awesome.
 
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