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Even at just 43" it still weighed 450lbs. I bought a 27" CRT some years ago and even that was a nightmare to transport

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I have one of those Sony WEGA CRT TV's, which were widescreen and even had HDMI.

https://www.mediacollege.com/equipment/sony/tv/kd/kd30xs955....

148 pounds! A total nightmare to get into our car and into our house.

WORTH IT.

I remember having the 36" version in ~1997. I wouldn't want to guess how much it weighed, it was insane. I remember how impressive it was watching the Fifth Element Laserdisc on it.

I had the first high-def Sonys in the US market. I worked at a high end audio video store in the mid 90s and they gave it to me cheap as they couldn't get rid of it.

https://crtdatabase.com/crts/sony/sony-kw-34hd1

Even at 34", the thing weighed 200lbs (plus the stand it came with). I lived in a 3rd floor walk up. I found out who my true friends were the day we brought it back from the store. I left that thing in the apartment when I moved. I bet it is still there to this day.

Most likely it's a central component of the buildings statics calculation meanwhile

They put it on a floating surface, now it's the building's earthquake counterweight.

I had the 40" version and I left it in the house when I got divorced. That thing was insane to move. Needed minimum three people to lift it.

I'd forgotten how heavy CRTs are. A local surplus auction has a really tempting 30's inch Sony CRT for sale cheap, but when I saw it was over 300lbs I had to pass on it.

I remember I had a 27inch crt on my desk. The desk top bended after a humid rainy season so I had to fix it by adding multiple metal supports.

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