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Originally Posted by zenith2134
Hey Zeno, how've you been man?
Crazy how they got away with that. My family had a 35" 90s Trinitron and it was impossible to move. The sides actually felt like 2 liter plastic coca cola bottles.
Personally, the only Sonys I would pick up after the early 80s are the PVM monitors. Sad how shortlived some of those CRTs were though.
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How times have changed. I had a Sharp 12" b&w portable TV back in the early 1970s which seemed to have been built like a tank, nothing like today's HDTVs. Mine had almost the entire set on a PC board (except the CRT, volume control, tuners and loudspeaker). I used that set about three years, IIRC, with not even so much as five minutes' worth of trouble (it still had all its original tubes when I finally put it in storage), then I replaced it with a color TV....and did not look back.
Your family's 35" Trinitron sounds like it was built like a tank as well, except for the sides of the cabinet. If the set was "impossible to move", however, the 35" CRT must have weighed close to the proverbial ton (if the set still used a conventional picture tube; some TVs still used such a tube by the 1990s--flat displays did not replace conventional tubes until flat screen TVs all but replaced standard sets, perhaps in the late 1990s).
BTW, I am expecting the flat-screen TV I have now, a 32" Insignia HDTV, to last me somewhat longer than any CRT television I have ever owned in my life. I bought the Insignia set about two years ago, IIRC, and it is still working as well now as it did when it was new. However, my HDTV, like all flat screens, is very delicate. I had a very close call with it a few months ago, when it fell on its back cover; the TV operated well after that (and still works well to this day), for which I am grateful, but had it fallen in the other direction......sheesh! I hate to think of it.