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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
There was a commercial in the '60s for Zenith's first solid-state TV (in the Royal 1200 series, IIRC), which claimed the set could be dropped from hundreds of feet off the ground and would still work. The commercial, if I remember correctly, showed one of these TVs actually being deliberately dropped from an airplane; there was no damage to the set or even, amazingly, to the CRT when the television eventually hit the ground, and the set still worked. This amazes me no end, as I would have expected the CRT to have imploded at the very moment of impact.
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Well, it was attached to a parachute, and hit the soft grassy ground rolling sideways instead of a straight drop, but it did survive that abuse. It certainly wouldn't free fall from hundreds of feet and survive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-teXC1mFKaQ
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