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My AIM username for a while was kw34hd1 which is the model of Sony’s first (and maybe last?) 1080i CRT. I recall it being around $25k too at the time. 34” dia
by sneak 2y ago
My AIM username for a while was kw34hd1 which is the model of Sony’s first (and maybe last?) 1080i CRT. I recall it being around $25k too at the time.
34” diagonal, 196lb.
Edit: A googling suggests it was launched end of ‘98 for $9k. $17k in 2024 dollars.
- jeffbee 2y agoThese kinds of TVs were under $2k a few years later. I had a Panasonic CT-34WX53 "Tau" display that I bought for $1600 in 2002.
- ranger_danger 2y agoand those Taus are still selling for that much due to the retro gaming craze and scalpers.
- krs_ 2y agoWhich is strange because 240p and 480i absolutely looks worse on them than on an SD TV. Better than a flat panel though to be fair.
- jeffbee 2y agoYeah I would think that if you just wanted an amazing image from a PS1 or SNES then you'd want a regular aspect ratio anyway. If I was going to plunder eBay for such a thing I'd go with a Panasonic SuperFlat.
- sneak 2y agoIt’s so weird. The Super NT is as accurate as anything and has an HDMI out. I love CRTs and Trinitrons but I’d never want to game on one (again).
- MBCook 2y agoI was seriously considering Sony’s 32” CRT for my first HDTV around 2006 or so. It must have been right about the tail end. It may have had a better picture, at least for analog stuff which was most all of it at the time. But the biggest factor was size. At ~150-200 lbs I couldn’t move it and would need new furniture to hold it. The LCD I bought probably weighed 40 pounds, was easy to move, and my existing furniture was fine. It was 720p only though.
- WWLink 2y agoIIRC, Sony CRTs also love blowing up their flyback transformer boards.
- qingcharles 2y agoThey made a 40" CRT. I used to find them for free all the time on Craigslist because people just wanted them gone. Here's a pic of one: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VkcAAOSw1jpij-aq/s-l1600.webp https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VkcAAOSw1jpij-aq/s-l1600.webp I found a brand new one from someone's house where the person had died a long time ago and three of us lugged it back to my house (three people can barely lift it). I grabbed it for light gun games, but it uses some sort of digital filtering on all the inputs which stops gun games from detecting the scan. I was going to take it apart and figure out how to bypass it, but I lost it in my divorce lol.
- masto 2y agoThat’s the one I had. What a beast. I gave it away around 2009 when I got my first LCD.