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- reliability: there's only one TV that needs repairing ever. Having two of everything means something is going to break faster & more things will need to be re

- reliability: there's only one TV that needs repairing ever. Having two of everything means something is going to break faster & more things will need to be repaired. - space: one very large is smaller than two large tvs. (TV's were quite big.) - weight: given all the wood and accessories, a big multi TV is far lighter than both combined - placement: the room doesn't have to be setup to have two different viewing spots. Folks can look in the same direction. - placement: "Separate audio could be played with or without earpieces," so sound can work fine even for multiple viewers - choice: of this caught on & was optimized, there would have been lots of choices about which polarized tv you wanted to buy. - quality: also strongly related to adoption. Being completely negative is oh so often being completely stupid. I absolutely can see a desire and want for a multi- iew screen like this, then, and now.

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kazinator 1y ago
If two units are combined into one, and have some shared components, both are out if there is a fault in the shared components. Even if the fault affects only one unit, both have to be powered down for the repair and are unavailable. If the repair requires the unit being hauled away, you lose use of both over the entire time (maybe they can supply a loaner). Some TVs were big, but small TVs existed also. E.g search for 1948 Sentinel 7" TV. Actually, it took a while for wide fan-out CRT's to be developed for the really large CRT screens. Early CRT's were long and narrow, like the tubes in oscilloscopes. If we combine two TV boxes into one, how much weight do we save? A rectangular box has 6 faces. We lose only one face from each box to combine them together, and two legs (though the combination might need slightly bigger legs). If there are some shared power supply components that cuts weight; perhaps the power transformer and whatnot do not have to be 2X heavier. Say the result is 1.8 times as heavy as two individual units with the same picture tube size. That's still a 1.8x heavier lift you cannot split into two lifts and two trips when moving. There is a reason why moving boxes are only so and so large.

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kazinator 1y ago

If two units are combined into one, and have some shared components, both are out if there is a fault in the shared components. Even if the fault affects only one unit, both have to be powered down for the repair and are unavailable. If the repair requires the unit being hauled away, you lose use of both over the entire time (maybe they can supply a loaner). Some TVs were big, but small TVs existed also. E.g search for 1948 Sentinel 7" TV. Actually, it took a while for wide fan-out CRT's to be developed for the really large CRT screens. Early CRT's were long and narrow, like the tubes in oscilloscopes. If we combine two TV boxes into one, how much weight do we save? A rectangular box has 6 faces. We lose only one face from each box to combine them together, and two legs (though the combination might need slightly bigger legs). If there are some shared power supply components that cuts weight; perhaps the power transformer and whatnot do not have to be 2X heavier. Say the result is 1.8 times as heavy as two individual units with the same picture tube size. That's still a 1.8x heavier lift you cannot split into two lifts and two trips when moving. There is a reason why moving boxes are only so and so large.