Stealing TV tubes for Arcades?

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by Chip Chester

When XBR series Sony cabinets start turning up as retro frames around Smithsonian-subscription-serviced ultra-res home art display panels, or their empty cabinets (again) serving as aquarium surrounds, will we not grieve and gnash our teeth and wail?

Chip

Probably so but that's for future collectors to worry about.
They made millions of these sets and I imagine the number that are used for CRT donors is miniscule compared to the number that get sent to the E-Waste centers every year.

I went to a Goodwill Distribution Center to pick up a small item I won on their auction, there were dozens of pallets with hundreds of sets going to the Recycler, most were BPC but there were a few older Sony's and some 70's sets in the bunch.
Better their tubes were harvested to repair games than to just be smashed up.