This TV is Frickin' HUGE | Nostalgia Nerd

I'd love it if you could come and join me at Game On on the 29th/30th March nnerd.es/GameOn ~ CRTs have always been special. That comforting glow late into the night, you can't quite beat it. So, it's about time we took a look at the biggest consumer CRT TV to ever grace our shores; The Toshiba 3787DB. At a whopping 37", it's vast, and it's currently sitting in the corner of Barcadia. So let's take a look, and see how vast this thing really is.
Also, apologies to anyone who is genuinely put out by high pitched Flyback transformer sounds. I can't actually hear them anymore 😭😭😭
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[@Nostalgianerd]

Come and join me at Game On on the 29th/30th March nnerd.es/GameOn, it's going to be incredible.

[@chickenwings6172]

lol I had a 36 CRT my parents had a 50 inch CRT, so that 37 inch is small. lol I have a 32 inch now. i had a 20 inch in 1990 when i was 9. my parents had a 27 inch.

[@therackstar]

I just threw away my Toshiba 32 😭

[@rivet916]

​ @chickenwings6172 The only "CRTs" that were 50 inch were rear-projection, and they were so terrible that they're an insult to traditional CRTs, and I've never heard anbody lump them together like that. Are you sure it wasn't smaller? The largest "traditional" CRT was the Sony PVM-4300 @ 43 inch, but were extremely rare, and I've never known anybody that's actually even seen one in person.

[@llMarvelous]

I’d say this: plasmas are underappreciated… I’d don’t say they are better, they are just as cool Hundreds of thousands of little gas bulbs that produce plasma on demand, controlled intensely, 60 times per second I think that sounds very cool And they look just as lively as CRT, come on))

[@rivet916]

@@llMarvelous Plasmas were pretty cool, and if you could afford it, they filled a gap in the market for a very short time (before LCDs got good). By the time plasmas started to drop in price, LCDs were good, and they took over. It's kinda sad they never got enough time for the economies of scale to kick in. It would have been interesting to see what the technology could have become.

[@EricGranata]

I remember being a kid in the 80s and being convinced that I had super hearing because I could hear a tv turn on/off from anywhere in the house.

[@warwagon]

Same! I could hear the high pitch of the tv a room away.

[@TubbyJ420]

Memories of walking down the school hallway in the 90s. As you walk past classrooms, you could 'hear' which rooms had a computer in them.

[@daveash9572]

Yep, me too. I was quite little at the time, and I even found that I could detect the changing echo of that whine if someone else was moving in the room, even when blindfolded.

[@Kwijibob]

It used to drive me mad. In the summer I could hear that high pitched ear piercing sound every time anyone on my street turned on their tv.

[@cjmarsh504]

Same here

[@MontieMongoose]

We had a 40" Mitsubishi TV in the US in the 1990s. My parents still had it until they moved two years ago. The thing weighed over 200 lbs.

[@volvo09]

I was about to comment that a conference room in an office I used to work at had a HUGE Mitsubishi TV hidden in a cabinet. The conference room was built in the mid 90's. I wanted to take the TV when the room was refurbished in 2014, but I had no where to put it and didn't have a truck. To be honest I liked my 32" Trinitron more, so that's what I held on to, but I wish I took that set now... I believe it was the largest CRT ever made. It was either the model your parents had, or it was 2" bigger... It was flipping massive. (At the time I had a 55" SD projection TV that a friend gave me, so this CRT really was big, I never thought they could get so big)

[@jakel2692]

My friends dad still has his 40 inch Mitsubishi, he sits on his couch all day watching fishing shows. It took 4 of us to move it their upper living room to the lower one.

[@lemagreengreen]

I sorta hope many of these monster CRT's survived because they were simply an absolute bugger to actually dispose of due to the weight.

[@jondonnelly4831]

Worth it's weight in Gold, probably.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Fuck.

[@reviewyourownadventure2083]

I had a 32" Advent flat tube CRT. It took 2 massive guys with no necks to get it into my apartment. They were struggling, bulging neck veins and red sweaty faces. They asked where I wanted it. I said to put it in the entertainment center. They hurriedly shuffled over to it and tried to get into the TV section. "Oh god! It won't fit!" yelled one of the guys. They panicked and sat it on the floor. They both took several deep breaths and told me I was out of luck. They weren't going to pick it up again. If I didn't want it in the floor I'd have to figure how to move it. They left. That TV kicked ass.

[@randomsomeguy156]

Did it stay on the floor?

[@freddykruger1118]

My girlfriend and I bought a 32 also had to bring up 2 flights of stairs. I was 120lbs back then and she was maybe 100lb. We got up the stairs

[@dutchcinephile1362]

😂 Nice story Every man's breaking point Very relatable

[@pesokpesok]

​@@freddykruger1118wow exactly the same story. Delivery left it in front of the building and me with my gf struggled to bring it up 5 flights (old bldng no elevator and i had top floor)

[@paper_gem]

I had a Sony 32" flat CRT. I could lift it on my own, but holy God, it was difficult. Of course, I can't do that anymore.

[@natecw4164]

I'll never forget when my dad came home and said "I need your help with something in the truck." 35" CRT Sony Trinitron. It weighed a metric ton. It was so bright. So big. So much nicer than those giant rear-projection tvs. It literally drew a crowd from our neighbors 😂 Ah the early 90s ❤

[@AA5SA]

I had the 32” WEGA Trinitron and, yeah, same. It was awesome!

[@michami135]

A couple years ago, I finally got to swap out my in-law's 34 inch CRT for a 48 inch LCD. I had forgotten just how heavy those old TVs were! Then installing a bigger TV one handed really showed the difference in weight. BTW, when moving the old TV out, I had to pause to take a break. And I have a farm where I move bails of hay on the regular.

[@x-vector7245]

A couple of years ago my 32" Loewe Aventos gave up the ghost; carried it down the stairs with my brothers' help just to be sure. Not only did it weigh around 53 kgs, the weight was also very unevenly distributed with most of it in the front because of the glass tube. Then there were the hard plastic ridges on the bottom, which meant wearing gloves was basically mandatory.

[@AltimaNEO]

My friends brother had one of those. Man, what a massive TV. I remember going to his house to play Playstation 2 on it.

[@SoundsLegit71]

There's a 40-inch Trinitron as well.

[@rivet916]

Fun fact: if you take a look at a lot of old music recordings ('80s and '90s are a good bet) in a spectrum analyser software like Spek or even using Audacity, you'll see an obvious line between 15.5 and 16kHz. That's background CRT whine when they were recording in the studio.

[@TheFrogfather1]

15.625KHz to be precise. Sorry, ex tv engineer (who can't hear anything about 10K nowadays) here.

[@Mordecrox]

​@@TheFrogfather1so you're just an engineer now?

[@TheFrogfather1]

@@Mordecrox software engineer nowadays.

[@InvalidVertex]

I had to open a few tracks because I couldn't believe it, but no, there it is. That's actually awesome.

[@BBWahoo]

​@@TheFrogfather1 Tell me more about engineering, what's your favorite part?

[@NumptyMcNumptyface]

My favourite aspect of that TV is the amount of inputs it has. You can never have enough inputs.

[@irontobias]

My favorite aspect of that TV is 4:3

[@nilus2k]

These days you are lucky if you get three HDMI inputs

[@allentoyokawa9068]

favorite*

[@TarenGarond]

@@allentoyokawa9068 favourite*

[@zidanerick5851]

It's a shame it doesn't have component in however

[@Argoon1981]

And the best thing about high quality CRT's, is that they where almost true HDR machines, without any of us knowing, their black levels were/are deep, if they updated the electronic circuitry to display HDR images, the cathode-ray tube (CRT) itself would be perfect to display them. Only HDR OLED is truly reaching and surpassing the tube.

[@mymomsaysimcool9650]

My son just had dinner with us and we played SWBattlefront split screen on our 56 inch tv. He said “Remember playing this on a PS2 with that monster 38inch Tube tv? God that thing was heavy.” Recalling when we had to haul it off when it died.

[@Vuusteri]

Funny how today every TV under 50'' is considered tiny, while in CRT-era everything over 30'' was humongous.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

I recently got an enormous 36" CRT for my vintage game room. And a 40" computer monitor for my home office. (Of course, the CRT is 4x3, the home office display is an ultra-wide, so its vertical height is quite a bit smaller than the CRT.)

[@MysteryMii]

TBF, 30” for a 16:9 display is quite different than 30” for a 4:3 displays since these are being measured diagonally.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

@@MysteryMii When I got my first HD player (an HD DVD player, as a Christmas present when I asked for a regular DVD player because mine had died, and I wanted something to tide me over until the Blu-ray/HD DVD format war was decided, oops.) my TV was a mid '90s 25" CRT. (Yes, still. mid '90s CRT at the time the Blu-ray/HD DVD format war was going on.) My 23" 1080p computer monitor was a bigger display for widescreen content. So I temporarily put it immediately in front of our proper TV for watching HD DVDs.

[@nanaki-seto]

30+ inch crts were large as they were 4:1 not 16:9 so they had a much larger size top to bottom. I have a small 32 icnh smart tv just a 1080p screen im going to re home in to a old 25 inch console tv one of these days got the tv in the basement. I just need to take the time to gut in totally and carefully cut it and make it shorter so the 32 incher fits and looks good. I might even use the space behind the screen to build a custom pc in just something lower end for media only

[@syncmonism]

I know right? Also, I think the number they used didn't even represent the actual viewable diagonal area of the screen, though maybe that was only with computer CRT displays. When I was a kid, I thought 27" was really big for a TV. Now I'm using a 32" computer monitor, and 55" is often the SMALLEST size that many models of TV actually come in.

[@KanawhaCountyWX]

Personally, as a 19-year-old, I don't mind the flyback wine. We used CRTs in my house for a long time, well after the HD transition, because analog cable existed for us until around 2017 and because we just couldn't afford to go HD for a long time, so it's actually reminds me of when I was very little. I wouldn't call it nostalgia because I'm not old enough to consider something nostalgic in my mind.

[@MyFriendlyPup]

HD was not expensive.

[@KanawhaCountyWX]

@@MyFriendlyPup when you're a family in the middle of rural West Virginia with an alcoholic mother coasting paycheck to paycheck, we couldn't exactly spend much money on a lot of things. All the technology we had was either hand-me-downs or thrift store fines. We were given our first HDTV in 2011, but even then we barely ever used it. The only reason we eventually were able to ditch the CRTs was because analog cable was finally shut off and my mother temporarily quicked her drinking habit.

[@fazejohncenachristogamerfaze]

I'm a bit younger than you and I also don't mind it really. It's something I got used to, before I hated it. My little sister still can't support *

[@croozerdog]

@@MyFriendlyPup it's relative bro, my mom still had a crt ~5 years ago. you cant buy a 300 dollar tv if you're living paycheck to paycheck

[@alexatkin]

Its interesting how everyone has different sensitivities. Personally it depended on the specific unit, some the whine was far more audible than others, but when I could hear it I found it very unpleasant. Although it was always kind of amusing at school being able to tell which classrooms had a TV on from the corridor, as the ones they used were stupidly loud.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

I recently got a 36" Sony WEGA - the last 4x3 model they made. It is HD, and has an HDMI port. It also weighs over 230 lbs/105 kg. I had to get it from my garage up to my "loft" above the garage where my vintage gaming room is. That… Was interesting. Had three teenagers to help, and it was still a pain. (Literally, I strained my back in the process and was in pain for a week.)

[@Nilboggen]

LOL yeah I was going to comment at least you are getting a good price per pound

[@meh_lady]

That’s exactly the one we had! It’s an absolute beast. My in-laws still use it to this day LOL.

[@ebridgewater]

"HD"

[@irontobias]

I picked up a 30" Samsung tx-s3082whx/xaa at an estate sale for the price of free - as long as I hauled it myself; luckily it's "only" 120lbs, but unluckily it's plagued by all of the issues of those models with poor geometry and discoloration 😢

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

@@ebridgewater It’s at least 720p. Going to 1080 doesn’t seem to improve much, but small text at 720p is still very readable.

[@samholdsworth420]

It was always impossible to turn on the TV in the living room stealthily... That high pitched whine 😂

[@samholdsworth420]

We had a 32-in zenith crt

[@nilus2k]

It was the pain of us teenage late night Cinemax watchers.

[@mormacfey]

That's why you hold a good fart for it.

[@samholdsworth420]

@@mormacfey 😂

[@willissudweeks1050]

@@mormacfeyThat’s hilarious but I’d worry the high pitch would cut through the fart haha

[@thesidneychan]

So I finally learned today that the high frequency sounds coming from the TV is called the flyback transformer. Back then no one knew what I was talking about. I always hear it as an indicator that the TV is left on. This is especially helpful when the screen is on standby or black, or muted in the other room, so I'd know to properly turn it off when other people didn't realise it's still on. And when I turn it off, there will be a short buzz, and what I think are sounds of dust or lint sticking to the TV via electrostatic, which sound like tiny prickly raindrops, then complete silence. The flyback transformer pitch sound is also present in some modern flat screen TVs if I recall.

[@darthwiizius]

You can tell when the flyback is on it's way out because it increases in volume as it degrades. People still using high end CRTs should get it replaced now before it goes and potentially damages more on it's way out.

[@eDoc2020]

It _can_ be the flyback transformer but on most modern TVs (80s maybe) they're fully potted in epoxy. You're more likely to be hearing the deflection yoke which is part of the same circuit.

[@thebossman80s]

My dad bought one of those in 99 and we had it till we moved 10 years ago. It still worked perfectly but it was too huge to take it with us so we just left it with the new owners of the house. I wish i still had it to play old games consoles on. The sound system was unbelievably good. I believe there still out there in the wild and still working. One of the reasons i left it was because i assumed it would stop working soon as it was getting old and i thought it couldnt be repaired so i thought why bother lugging it around but it would probably still be working to this day had i of just kept it. As you can tell im still not over it 😢

[@clack1]

Your parents did a what a lot of people did in 2007-2009. They just left the TV at the house because they had gotten too old to move stuff around themselves. The owners come in and just trash it because they were usually younger people with no appreciation for em'.

[@SuperCartoonist]

9:38 You're not supposed to connect composite if you have S-video connected because composite will interfere with S-video and like wise in vice versa. The picture quality will be off.

[@fffUUUUUU]

But he's self proclaimed "prooo"! 😂

[@KarrierBag]

I have to say, I was very lucky as a kid along with my two brothers, our parents worked in and then took over (late 70's) a TV/ Radio sales, rental and repair shop so we always had the new stuff to try out like this over a weekend and sometimes through the week, my dad now 86 still messes around fixing TV's videos etc in his workshop.

[@LandisSeralian]

I have a 36" RCA F35100ST sitting on the floor in my gaming room right now, that thing is super heavy and the screen is taller than the HDTV I have sitting right next to it. There's just something amazing about huge CRTs.

[@ZeroHourProductions407]

I still keep a 34" hitachi I managed to save/rescue from Goodwill while they were still accepting and selling them. One big reason? Rail shooters. A lot of tv and display makers brag about how fast they can make their panels, but not one of them will ever work with _any_ of the light guns out there. "But there's the Sinden--" "I'm gonna stop you right there." The problem with the Sinden, is it's $400 USD, and only works with Duck Hunt on real hardware. It does eff all for the other light gun games on the NES, or really any other platform. I'm talking House of the Dead (Saturn & Dreamcast) I'm talking Time Crisis 1/2/3 (PS1/2). I'm talking Confidential Mission (Dreamcast). I'm talking Silent Scope (Dreamcast, and the port on OG Xbox). Decades of great rail shooters completely ignored. That's my gripe. Why emulate them if I can play them on the real console with their associated gun? That's the gripe.

[@nbrown5907]

Service Merchandise was similar. I remember thinking it was so cool to have your purchase show up on a long conveyor from the warehouse lol.

[@buffaloditka]

I think Service Merchandise would be the equivalent to this store mentioned at the beginning.

[@henrymca]

We also had a similar store up here in Canada, it was called Consumers Distributing

[@krad2520]

We also had BEST that operated on this same model

[@MrDuncl]

Having stuff stored out the back meant they could store far more stuff, stacked floor to ceiling, in a smaller shop. Our local Argos closed during the pandemic and is now an Emporium type place. It is interesting to see where all the stuff was stored (two large floors behind the small retail area). p.s. If people want to flick through old Argos catalogues Google Retromash Argos.

[@_Frank_the_Tank]

Had a 36 inch Toshiba crt back in the early-mid 00s, I was a broke college kid and it was a free hand-me-down from a neighbor. Pretty sure my lower back pain originated from lugging that thing out of the neighbors house, into the back of my truck, and up a flight of stairs at my place by myself... I had one of them cheapo wooden tv stands with the plastic legs that screwed together, it worked fine for the small 19 inch crt I had prior, but i knew it wasnt gonna hold the 36 inch tank. Before tossing the tv stand in the trash i decided to pour quick concrete mix inside the hollow plastic legs and screw it back together, after that it was more then enough to handle the weight of the tv 😂

[@dvdmike007]

My friends rich parents had this! I hooked my LD player up in 96 and we were loving it

[@dextermorgan1]

I had a LD player too! I was 24 at the time. I bought the Circuit City demo model. Good times!

[@Stock--Rosso]

I owned a 36 inch Panasonic TX widescreen, that came with it's own rock solid stand and used it for the PS2/PS3. I sold it 10 years ago like an idiot and regretted it almost immediately😂 Great video👍🏼

[@mitchellazevedo6637]

I am the proud owner of a Sony FD Trinitron WEGA KV-36XBR450 36" CRT with DRC horizontal and vertical line doubling, two component and three S-video inputs. The Neo Geo CD through S-Video absolutely shines on this TV set.

[@cjc363636]

Thanks for the memories. In the US I was part crew of a news broadcast and we had BIG CRTs - Mitsubishi, IIRC - behind bookshelf covers that scissor lifted up and down to expose the screen for anchor interview segments. Took several big beefy techs to move those sets back in the late 90s.

[@samio3907]

Watching this after LTT's 2000" screen is wild! Time for some retro CRT love ❤

[@belzebub16]

10:19 a lot of european market consumer TV sets in the 90s could actually handle NTSC just fine, I had a Sony KV-21 from '96 and when I got my first DVD player it could play all my imports in "real" NTSC (not 4.43 or PAL60) just fine!

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

I've got a 32" Samsung CRT from 2005 in the corner of our living room. It sits atop one of those corner-shaped electric fireplaces, rated for the weight of course. I made sure our cable management was done the way we wanted when we got it into position, because there is NO accessing the back of this thing again until we move, lmao. I run a modded 3TB OG XBox on it. It's absolutely loaded, lol.

[@TheSteveTM]

I picked up a CRT off of Facebook Marketplace a bit over a month ago. From the pictures, I could tell it was a Sony Trinitron, had S-Video and Component inputs, and was in really good shape. Less than $100. Sold. Went to pick it up and realized this was the biggest CRT I'd ever seen. 36 inch screen. 220 lbs... Managed to slide it into the hatchback (just barely fit in the back of the GTI face down), where it sat for like 2 weeks until I could actually get one of my gym buddies to help me move it to the house. Got it into the house where it promptly slipped out of my hands, broke a glass coffee table on the way down, and fractured my hand. It's been sitting on the floor in that spot for a month now until I can get some more friends to come over and lift it onto a very stout cabinet as its final resting place. NES looks great on it though.

[@mormacfey]

and to think I carried my Sony 40" by myself back in the day.

[@paulrippcord506]

My parents only had 36 inch Sony Trinitrons/WEGAs and I distinctly remember my dad breaking his arm when we failed to stop it from coming down a moving truck ramp. The stand they put it on was this massive thing made of welded steel with a wood facade. I love CRTs but generally speaking I’m happy we moved to to LEDs.

[@TubbyJ420]

It wasnt a size upgrade, but my mom replaced her 27" Trinitron with a 27" WEGA. i could lift the Trinitron myself, no f-ing way i could lift the WEGA myself. I swore off ever moving it again. When the WEGA eventually was replaced with a 50" plasma, she hired someone to haul the tube away. I wanted no part of that lol. Now, i love my projector. 130" screen, small little 10 pound box come moving day.

[@paper_gem]

Yeah, same here. CRTs are cool, but I'd rather have an LCD, or OLED display. Although i like the small CRT TVs. I still have a 13" CRT TV.

[@joojoojeejee6058]

"LED" isn't a display technology as such. Except for OLED.

[@xxtravdamanxx]

​@@joojoojeejee6058 um, yes it is

[@joojoojeejee6058]

@@xxtravdamanxx LED is a backlight technology. OLED is a display technology.

[@robertgroom4406]

I bought a 36" flat screen Sony WEGA CRT TV in 1999 which cost - yes, £1999. It had a 16:9 screen, and was perfectly flat - much nicer than the typical goldfish bowl TVs of the time. The glass is about an inch thick at the front (to resist the vacuum) and weighted close to 100KG. I only got rid of it about 5 years ago, and it was still working perfectly well then. Got a DVD player to go with it. Amazing home cinema!

[@piotrne]

5:17 "Which allows input and output" - wow, incredible, you could record a broadcast from your TV. What a time in human history.

[@TheNuje]

In Canada, Consumers Distributing was exactly like Argos. I don't know if the USA had a more popular equivalent, but either it wasn't a huge hit there, or they had something else. That assumption is based on their being more locations in Canada than the USA at their peak (total, not per capita). But I fondly remember receiving the catalogue in the mail whenever. I don't remember if it was annual, or more frequent. But we'd get it, and go through the games and toys sections as kids, of course!

[@MrDuncl]

Google Retromash Argos to browse through some old Argos catalogues. Argos was a big hit here in the U.K. as they were usually one of the cheapest retailers yet had a good range.

[@sterlinsilver]

There's a car dealership i went to not too long ago that had a silver 40" CRT TV in the break room. Nobody knew if it worked or not but everyone was just scared to move it lol

[@emmettturner9452]

Sony KV-40XBR800?

[@sterlinsilver]

@@emmettturner9452 no it had a curved screen

[@mr.jamster8414]

@@sterlinsilver mitsubishi?

[@sterlinsilver]

@@mr.jamster8414 I think that was it

[@S7tronic]

I had a 40" Grundig CRT I bought from pub back in the late 90's, absolute nightmare to move..I still miss playing Silent hill on PS1 on it.

[@YudaHnK]

Silent Hill on a CRT, in the evening. 😱

[@DethMetalGuitars]

I have a 32 inch Toshiba and move it around my house by myself. Love it so much I bought a second one. I did try and snap up a 36 inch CRT from the side of the road once, and I had to get my brother in law to come help me load it up and test it out. When it had too many problems to be work keeping he was kind enough to help me put it back where we found it.

[@CineSoar]

I had a 40" Sony Trinitron, bought in the late 90's and sold early 2,010's (a friend had one, that was 2, or 3 inches larger and oddly, given the small percentage difference, you could tell at a glance it was unquestionably bigger). I once hoisted it up into an entertainment center, by myself, which I consider one of the riskier things I've done (considering the non-zero chance of being up close and personal, with an enormous implosion of the glass CRT). I rolled it into the room on a dolly and set it on the floor. Then, I stacked books to the width and depth of the TV base, and half the height of the shelf. The position of the TV, books and shelf, formed a triangle, of which I knelt in the middle. First, I tipped the TV onto my knees and chest, and got a the best grip I could underneath. Then, I slid the screen up my body, until it was high enough to clear the books. Next, I shuffled my knees, rotating, until the TV was hovering over the books and tilted the TV back upright, on top of them. I repeated this maneuver, starting at the book height, which allowed me to get hand-holds better suited to placing it on the shelf, that were not available on the floor. Finally, with the weight resting on my hands, hips, and chest, I raised up on my knees, and shuffle-rotated, until I could place enough of the rear of the TV's base on the shelf, and slide the TV home. For time-period context, I watched a lot of South Park, the "Lost" series, Mythbusters, and all of the Motorcycle-builders shows on that TV. When I sold it, I used still frames from "American Beauty" to demonstrate that it still had good picture.

[@nBasedAce]

That vacuum tube is so big it must sound like a proton pack when you turn it on. 😅

[@namco003]

As an American who grew up loving British TV shows and humor, the catalog store, I never knew that was a thing. The not looking at others while browsing the catalog, sounds so British LOL!! It does sound a lot like the American catalog magazines we would get at home, but we didn't have stores like that.

[@MrDuncl]

Google Retromash Argos to look through some old catalogues.

[@LombardoJoe]

Yesterday I brought home a Sony Trinitron KV-36FS100 from my dad’s. Original base and all. He just… let me have it. I can’t believe it. My wife for one is very happy that all my retro consoles are no longer in the living room. That thing is 216lbs and 2 of us barely got it out of my truck and into my house.

[@MySpeed12]

My father had a Big Blaupunkt PiP CRT TV from '93 I believe, it could display a tiny window on another channel while you watched a different channel (pip - Picture In Picture, Cable!!) We still have it but hasnt been used in ages since he passed, just didnt throw it away it was his pride and joy! That thing needs a whole table for itself

[@sicedice]

Used to sell, deliver and install TVs like this back in early 90s. Took 3 people super sized box with a Sony 52", delivered bigger, some had to be removed from the box to get through the door. Sony TVs were always 20% heavier than a normal TV.... To be honest Philips weren't far behind in weight. At that point boxes were cardboard , polystyrene and wooden struts. Philips were the main ones doing 100htz screen, Sony kind of did one, Panasonic did one , but Hitachi, JVC and awia , never got to see any of those at the shop, Philips was a main seller in 100htz Still got my Sony 40inch and stand.

[@namco003]

Largest CRT TV. So i'm an arcade game tech/collector(30 years), and I prefer CRT over the replacement of LCD/HD. I'm not a purest, but I play rhythm games, so my reasons aren't the same as a lot of people. I had not one, but two 36 inch GATEWAY CRT monitors. HUGE. Heavy AF, and I had people help me get it into one of my arcade cabs, which is fit perfectly(Gauntlet Dark Legacy Atari Alpha 36 cabinet). The reason i HAD two, was the arcade machine the first one I bought was in fell in the truck, due to a friend not securing it properly, and I bought a second one used, and broke the tubes neck the same day I bought it, while trying to install it.

[@akiraokami]

it's kind of funny, back in the 90s we had a much bigger living room than we do today, yet in my mind the TV we had feels like it was absolutely massive. But my father was a cab driver struggling to make ends meet, so we always bought everything second hand so I can not imagine that we had a particularly big TV. Meanwhile today we have a 70 something" in the much smaller living room, and the TV feels absolutely tiny. What's even funnier is that in my gaming room I have a 28" CRT and a 50" OLED and despite the fact that they're practically next to one another, the OLED still feels tiny compared to the CRT

[@Leeki85]

This TV has height of 45" 16:9 TV. For some reason it's the height that is most important for us when we judge TV size. Anyway from TV this size I would expect at least VGA input. It would be a perfect display to run 2048x1536 at 100 Hz. I have 19" CRT monitor that is capable of such resolutions and modern operating systems like Windows 10 looks absolutely gorgeous. Just you have to set scaling to 200% to simulate 1024x768 resolution. High-res CRTs have both HD sharpness and analog smoothness. It's like a future that we all wanted but it never came.

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

Father Leonard E. Feeney (1957) had the best description of television.

[@clubcyberia8572]

Frank would be proud! (Franks 2000 inch tv)

[@stewydoo]

Wow, 2000" 😮 bet you could watch The Simpsons from 30 blocks away on that thing!

[@sogero2]

So much ASMR in this video! When the music swelled during an extreme closeup of the scanlines in Streets of Rage 2, I got something like a warm fuzzy and chills together.

[@janrdoh]

My favorite thing to do at night was to switch off all the lights and then walk up to the tv to switch it off (because you had to), and then run my finger all over the screen to enjoy that static glow.

[@TinyMaths]

God, you just made me realize; Argos was/is an odd place really. It's like online shopping, but you go and collect the goods yourself. But you're not shopping online from your home, you're shopping online from inside the store; and in the old days, no computer, but the catalogue, and that little green box with the keypad and the digital display, with the dot matrix, where you entered the code to check your item was available and, fingers crossed, your item was in stock; I always felt anxious hitting that button, because it felt like a game of chance; your guess was as good as mine as to whether the thing you wanted was even there.... strange thing that was; but we were so used to it.

[@tmtmrm]

And if there was "1 in stock" you were hoping no one else was in the queue before you to buy it!

[@dglcomputers1498]

and before they had the stock checkers and you just hoped they had it in!

[@IanDarley]

We used to own a massive 4:3 Toshiba until around 2000 that was so large, you could turn it around via the remote control, it had a motorised base. A guy that I worked with at the time had an even bigger one with a fully flat screen that was 16:9, it must have been 38-40" but I wouldn't swear on that in court.

[@CDRaff]

My first "real TV" as an adult was a 37" Sony Wega Trinitron CRT. It was hellish to move around, but it instantly made my place the place to hang out.

[@daveidmarx8296]

Two months ago at an Estate Sale, I picked up a very similar Toshiba (36A42), which despite the 36 in the model number, had a screen which measures 37 inches. It also came with a similar stand (that had a cassette recorder and a DVD player). The cost for everything?? Two dollars. And yes, I definitely needed help loading it into my car and carrying it in the house.

[@blakegriplingph]

"We'll be having one hell of an electric bill."

[@Nostalgianerd]

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[@Mdyck69]

In the late 90s our family tv quit. My mom worked at Sears and we picked up a Sears Branded TV. I think it was a 37". It has a 'super woofer' on top plus the option for surround sound speakers and such. I was a pretty bulky kid as I was pulling wrenched working on cars and such so I could bench press over 250lbs in grade 12 and even this tv was something I'd consider VERY heavy. I could physically lift it but I was definitely a 2 person deal. We had went from a standard 21" up to this so it really felt like living in the future. Funny enough my best friends family won a runner up prize for a local lottery and got a 61" projection tv. I have a 65" now but even at that it feels miniscule compare to that old projection tv. Just the mere presence of these over sized objects were like charicatures of reality. It truly was a time

[@orange_light_pictures]

I can genuinely say I had one of these. Not as a kid though; picked up second hand from one of those big charity shop warehouse places. When I eventually moved it didn’t come with me, which I regret to this day. One slightly funny story was, there was a delivery and install fee, little did they know that I lived on the third floor of a set of flats and there was three flights of stairs. After this it never moved again. It was also downward trend in Toshiba, as although they produced 36” wide jobbies, with integrated stands; I had a 34” which made it look like a rear projection TV. They all suffered a similar fau,t, when a specific part starts to fail, it introduces noise like static into the picture no matter the input or source. A shame as it spoiled Toshiba's reputation going into the Plasma and LCD boon.

[@markwrightrf]

I wouldn't leave that in the window on Prince of Wales Road, Peter 🤣

[@lemagreengreen]

I truly miss the sounds of a big CRT turning on. Had a 21" monitor that I can still hear in my head but that static crackle is something you can only experience.

[@Kenyonchowmein]

Dawg, that AOL hoodie goes hard. Somewhere out there, Connie is smiling with a tear in her eye, and a song in her heart 🥲

[@henryokeeffe5835]

Also flyback transformers can cause distress to fingers!

[@dragonheatgaming5005]

you only ever make that mistake once, christ it felt like i have been kicked in the chest by a horse

[@blakegriplingph]

And a one-time ticket to oblivion.

[@AppliedCryogenics]

I have some gorgeous (and not unusually noisy) CRT's in my garage. I'm not even allowed to power them up, because my teenage daughter freaks out! Dang entitled kids these days!

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

What a huge television! That thing is a proper beast! I have a 21-inch Trinitron and it strikes a good balance between size and convenience, but I do wish I’d gone for the 25-inch model. The sheer size of this is just mind boggling and I’d love to get something like this someday in a way, even though it’s ridiculously huge and would not be worth it.

[@ivorj4715]

The electronics in Toshiba sets of that era were unstoppable. People only got rid of them when they became old fashioned, but even then they were still working perfectly.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

I would love to see a crt but made with modern tech

[@Robertsshed]

Ferguson had a 38 inch CRT.

[@MrAwol007]

i had that tv 1997/98 it was massive but it failed no sound after 2 years :(

[@Robertsshed]

@@MrAwol007 Was it the 4:3 one? I lusted after that. All the home cinema magazines raved about it because it was big enough to show a film in letter box without losing too much of the image.

[@MrAwol007]

@@Robertsshedyes 4:3 aspect and my first movie on it was airforce one it was indeed epic

[@SurnaturalM]

My last CRT TV was a 42 inches sony trinitron vega. I bought it in 1995 and it was one of the biggest CRT you could buy. They cost around 2000$ in 1995. It was a huge amount at the time. They were also stupid heavy, around 100kg. It was the best CRT TV you could buy at the time. I bought it as a present for my girlfriend who was pregnant with my first daughter.

[@turnski]

This was our family TV in my childhood 😂 I remember when my dad ordered it my mum was not happy as we really couldn't afford it. After watching a film on it once she let us keep it 👌 plenty of Super Mario 3 and streets of Rage was played on this beauty! Huge nostalgia this video thanks for making me smile

[@TheAegisClaw]

As a student in '98 and '99 I worked in Littlewoods warehouse loading TVs onto artic trailers. 32" were bad enough, had to make sure you kept the heavy screen side of the box next to your body. Certainly kept you fit.

[@simonwilkie]

A brilliant and welcome return to some of your best content made. Nostalgia at its best. Thank you

[@Mikey_the_Protogen]

we need more people that will warn you about that at the beginning before you just hurt your ears by listening to the video. I really hate when there’s no warning like that, but you still hear the high-pitched frequencies from as you mentioned the flyback transformer.

[@Techno-Universal]

We had a 34 inch Panasonic CRT TV that we purchased in 1997 and it lasted 13 years until 2010 when the electron gun burned out and it could no longer produce an image. The Samsung 36 inch LCD TV we purchased in 2010 to replace it is still working perfectly fine today! :)

[@stuartcastle2814]

A friend of mine had (I think) a 32 inch CRT.. He worked for Dixons at the time, so got a decent discount, which reduced the cost to something approaching the normal cost for a smaller size screen. I have no idea how much it weighed (beyond saying a lot), and I've no idea how he got it up the stairs. He lived on the 3rd floor of a block of flats that had no lift. He was also the only resident in the block who was under 60, so he probably didn't get a neighbour to help. AFAIK, he didn't ask any of our mutual friends. The picture was bloody good. Don't get me wrong, I love HD, and I think current screens give a good picture, but I still think a decent CRT still has better colour.

[@TheMetacritic]

My best friends mother bought a 40" Loewe Aconda 93102 ZW back in the days.The largest TV set you could get in Germany. She always wanted the biggest TV on the market.This beast was almost 220 lbs and me and my buddy moved it to her apartment on the first floor.When we finished the job we hoped that there would never be a successor with an even larger screen. Thank god her next TV was a Plasma.

[@waltergabriel3694]

I used to be a TV repairman, i remember these sets very well, nothing beats the sound the softness of the colors and that ozone smell of high voltage.

[@daliboriliev5710]

The static electricity crackling noise when you got close to the screen and raised your hair. The tube was amazing!

[@B33FY2011]

We had a 28" Bush 2863 NTX/A. It looked huge back in 1996. It came with it's own stand pre installed just like the tv featured in this video. It was our main living room tv for about 5 years. It was a great tv for the time.

[@jasonvaughn3478]

Sony sold a 40" 4:3 CRT when I worked at a home theater shop back around 2003. It was over 300 lbs by itself without the stand.

[@TubbyJ420]

one of my childhood friends in the 90s had a 36 or 37 inch CRT, his dad always had the latest and greatest. the tv was too heavy for any normal tv stand, so they filled an old camping cooler with encyclopedias. this was then wedged under the actual tv stand for support and the whole thing was hidden with a black cloth. N64 4-player on that tv was awesome. I also watched my first Laserdisc and DVD movie on that tube. Terminator 2 and The Big Hit, respectively.

[@MrNeil-qs5fo]

Wow! Thanks for this. I had a Toshiba just like this with a slightly smaller screen size. This had a built in surround with a center speaker,2 side speakers and 2 satellite ones. Great quality and amazing sound. Worked great with the playstation 2. Also got a 32" Sony windscreen after that which weighed as much as an armoured car and had to carry it step by step up a flight of stairs. Took a good 20 minutes 😢

[@zx85]

I had completely forgotten about that static crackle when a big CRT switches on.. wow!

[@MattyFitt73]

I bought this after selling my 11k comic collection! What a beast it was. I remember lugging it around but it was pretty amazing.

[@BigCar2]

I helped my mate move his 40 something inch monstrosity back in the day, and it nearly killed me.

[@nilus2k]

The problem is it’s a very compacts weight. Without any sort of moving straps it’s difficulty for two people to get a good handle on it and it really should be a three man job minimum

[@kenwheeler3637]

I still have a RCA 27" "TruFlat CRT. It takes up a lot of space, with the huge stand it sits upon, and moving it seems tantamount to pushing a bus with your toe but it's very much worth it for use with all of my vintage systems.

[@user-zd7qx4id7r]

haven’t been able to watch for a bit, and WOW the place looks SO COOL, incredible work!!

[@truth3899]

It really is beautiful. Imagine the hours of 16 and 32 bit exploration that could take place on that gem.

[@N3QO73]

I'm suddenly reminded of helping my best friend move his Dad's 36" Sony Trinitron back in the day. YIKES! ..and my Commodore 1702 CRT still looks great!

[@PhaQ2]

I trash picked a 36 inch Sanyo back in 2006. Still runs strong with bright picture tube. Love playing my 3DO on it!

[@kevinh96]

I had the 32inch version of this TV for a few years, it was replaced with a 47 inch Panasonic rear projection set in around 2001. It took two guys and me to carry the Toshiba from the Currys van up the flight of stairs to my flat and we had to unbox it in the hallway as the box was too wide to fit through the living room door. I had to enlist the help of a friend when I wanted to move it around if I rearranged the living room. I could move it on my own but shoving it risked a hernia. These days although awkward, I can at least lift and move my 55 inch LG TV on my own when I need to.

[@antoinegx]

My grand father bought one of this and it was a treat to watch movies on that TV. Thanks for the memories 🙏

[@BuzzaB77]

I'm in my 40s and I can still hear the transformer. I have permanent tinnitus at 15.7khz because of these. It was so loud to me I could tell instantly upon stepping into anyone's house whether there was a tv turned on in the building.

[@pallsmortion4750]

My parents bought one of these TVs in 2001, from Stage 2, a catalogue returns outlet. We got it September the 11th. I think it was £350 at the time. When I left home in 2006 it was then my first TV which I had for many years. It worked fantastically and never failed.

[@ohioplayer-bl9em]

When I was younger I could walk into any house and tell if a TV was on. The high pitched whistle the CRT made was very very noticeable to me. I don’t hear it anymore and that’s because nobody has one and I’m old AF and I always have a high pitched sound in my old dumb ears. 😂 IMO The Sony 16/9 crts were amazing and had wonderful pictures. I wish I had one now. But I do have a 50 inch plasma 3D screen that looks amazing. I had to replace the power board in it as lightning got it, somehow all the settings I had on that night stay and you have to change them everytime you use it as it was on some dumb settings when it was hit. The new settings don’t stay after you change them.

[@irontobias]

A few years back, I picked up a almost brand new floor model 36" built into a full wooden stand at a thrift. I only know it was a floor model thanks to the included remote - which was conveniently tucked into a cardboard sleeve stapled on the back... It also has a built in subwoofer at the bottom, and somehow my wife and I alone managed to wrangle it into not only our car, but down the stairs into the basement - in two different houses. Dont think the tube is as high quality, but the inputs are great; only real down side is the built in casters, which seem built for the lowest pile carpet only, and one or two of which completely collapsed into the MDF over the course of the multiple moves

[@grimley666]

I was a Telly salesman in the mid to late 90's. I sold a couple of these. It had Surround sound & speakers to match. It was HEAVY!

[@-PLAYER0NE-]

Awesome setup! It's wild to see the 3 scart inputs knowing that was just standard kit over there.

[@Viteaification]

the sound on that thing is incredible. i also totally forgot about the static that would generate when you turned on a crt. it really is the small things...

[@jitmancanth6698]

I thought the nostalgia peaked with the CRT, but then you mentioned Plasma, and my rose-tinted spectacles got a smidge roser...

[@masterkraft4746]

I had one massive SONY CRT like that in 2010. It was gifted to me by an ex-gf, she kept it from a mansion her mother sold. I finally moved it to my apartment, bought a Genesis second hand with Streets Of Rage 2 and we played the hell out of it with my friends. I attached a huge Pioneer club-grade stereo pair to it. It was like going back in time as if we were millionaires playing the Genesis lol

[@RobertHellier]

I knew a friend had the smaller version of this set and I set all up for him when it was brand new, it was a great tv and sound was phenomenal