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Posted on 1/4/23 at 10:12 pm to LemmyLives
I had one of those later on, thing was insanely heavy. Sounded great though.
Posted on 1/4/23 at 10:15 pm to RedRifle
Just think of all the family pictures your mom would put on top of that thing.
Posted on 1/4/23 at 10:18 pm to LemmyLives
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An old lady asked us to put a 40" Mitsubishi on top of her kitchen cabinets. That thing was 210 pounds.
I had that exact same set (at least a 40" Mits CRT) in the bedroom in the 90s and early 2000s. In about 2004 we bought a 60" 16x9 Mits CRT rear projector to replace it and I was out of town when it was delivered. My wife decided to move the 40" Mits downstairs and into the garage. Some how she slid it out of the bedroom and down the hall to the stairs. Going down the stairs she lost control and it went tumbling down and smashed into an interior wall. It knocked two of the studs off the bottom plate. When I got home I was treated with "don't be mad but I broke the house". I still laugh about that TV stuck in the wall. But those big CRTs were indeed heavy as hell.
Posted on 1/4/23 at 10:25 pm to RedRifle
Years ago when I got married, I bought a 36" tv. I thought I was the cat's arse.
Posted on 1/4/23 at 10:28 pm to Obtuse1
Had one of these 20 years ago.
Bastard was so heavy I had to help the two delivery guys get it upstairs.
Posted on 1/4/23 at 10:39 pm to OweO
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There were fricking horrible. I remember my parents had some friends we used to go watch LSU away games with at their house when they were on Tiger Vision. They got a big screen TV (not as big as the one in the picture, but it was that screen where it being bigger made it look worse) and it was a big deal "it will look like you are on the field with the team". I just remember thinking the whole time "I wonder what it would be like to play Nintendo on it?"
Posted on 1/4/23 at 11:12 pm to gizmothepug
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Only thing missing is the kid that had to go outside to turn the old school 20+ foot antenna to get a better picture of the game.
Had a pipe wrench stuck on the pipe. Damn lightning fried two of those motors with the big round knob controller in the house.
Posted on 1/4/23 at 11:13 pm to RedRifle
My back hurts just looking at that thing.
Posted on 1/4/23 at 11:18 pm to BuckyCheese
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Had one of these 20 years ago. Bastard was so heavy I had to help the two delivery guys get it upstairs.
I did a brief stint working at Best Buy 20+ years ago. I’d hide when someone wanted anything that was 27” or bigger, so I wouldn’t have to help move the damn thing.
Posted on 1/5/23 at 12:18 am to RedRifle
We had a 27" console Zenith with the "Space phone"
The phone feature was cool as hell but the people on the other end hated it because it sounded like you were talking in a cave.
The phone feature was cool as hell but the people on the other end hated it because it sounded like you were talking in a cave.
Posted on 1/5/23 at 12:21 am to RedRifle
We had this bad boy...
Posted on 1/5/23 at 12:23 am to KurtSchrute
They had one like that (but a little bigger) in the lobby of Power dormitory. The picture quality was lousy. It was almost always tuned to MTV.
This post was edited on 1/5/23 at 12:25 am
Posted on 1/5/23 at 12:33 am to Obtuse1
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"don't be mad but I broke the house
Too bad Ring cameras didn't exist back then. I can only imagine what kind of free passes that bought you over the next football season.
Only people that have moved/installed tube TVs understand how insanely important the arrow that says "FRONT" is on the box. 80% of the weight in one direction, and almost no one else realizes it.
I thought I was going to end up getting crushed by the damn thing after would have knocked me off the ladder. Two ladders, two dudes, he weighed 40 pounds less than me, and we're seven feet in the air.
I'm confident in assuming the TV fell of the cabinet and killed the old lady in Shreveport. These were "new" height cabinets (late 90s), so the base of the TV was about eight feet in the air. How you're going to watch that while making your tea or cooking, I have no idea.
This post was edited on 1/5/23 at 12:34 am
Posted on 1/5/23 at 1:01 am to SPEEDY
The TV on the floor/console situation needs to make a comeback. Our children should watch TV laying on their bellies with chins propped on their fists the way God intended. The TV over the fireplace trend needs to go away.
Posted on 1/5/23 at 5:14 am to RedRifle
I bet it weighed more than my car
Posted on 1/5/23 at 5:18 am to RedRifle
Do they come in different shades of wood?
That dark brown will clash with my living room cabinets.
That dark brown will clash with my living room cabinets.
Posted on 1/5/23 at 6:30 am to RedRifle
Just had a flashback to my dad telling me to get up and go change the channel
Posted on 1/5/23 at 7:08 am to tss22h8
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I remember those. Picture wasn't worth crap.
All depended on how far you got away from it.
Posted on 1/5/23 at 9:08 am to USMEagles
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Free-standing TVs look so trashy.
not many options in 1978
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