Because back then you really didn't do things in payments(that often), if you had the money, you had the money. So that means if you got a big ass tv, you were the baddest motherfricker on the block. They weren't cheap, they were VERY heavy, and for the time, the picture was so clean and pristine it made you lose consciousness because your mind wasn't ready for that shit.
Nah the picture was soft and not that great. It was lighter than a CRT of equivalent screen size. It just wasn't feasible to make CRTs that big and an LCD panel that size at the time would have been even more expensive.
>the picture was so clean and pristine it made you lose consciousness because your mind wasn't ready for that shit.
God damn these larping zoomers.
Projection tvs had the shittiest image even as a toddler I noticed how bad they were.
Yeah it looked better with your eyes, every childhood photos I’ve seen with the TV on doesn’t look good
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Why is that, what did I just explain to you in another post?
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I’m agreeing you by posting my own anecdotal evidence from family photos
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Then why are you saying it doesn't look good? The camera's going to mess with the TV
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I’m saying they don’t look good in a still photograph but look fine when actually sitting in front of one
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Ok, you've already made that point.
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We’re all frens here anon. Just people who can appreciate and respect old TVs
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Nah they always looked like shit, we just didn't know any better at the time. I still have a Sony Trinitron CRT for retro gaming and rose colored glasses don't change the fact that it's 480i resolution.
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holy shit, turning the console sideways to keep the cord away from the screen never fricking occured to me
t. apparently moronic 40 year old boomer who filthily played with the cord dangling in front of the screen a lot
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Yeah, that's pretty moronic.
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Even 80s tvs looked fine but you’d get a color tint on film because the whole balance of the tv was off compared to the toom
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What game were you playing? Looks cool
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Jurassic park on Sega. Specifically the raptor Visitors center level https://youtu.be/tj3et7Nkb7c?si=k2zZBtqBviySJDDP
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That's the game that tricked me into getting a Genesis as a child instead of a SNES, a choice that I would regret ever since then. I picked a mediocre movie license game instead of Chrono Trigger/FFIII/Super Metroid/SMW/Yoshi's Island/DKC/Mega Man X/Mega Man 7/etc
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I had a SNES and a Genesis, lmao.
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Oh I had a buddy who had everything. Genesis with 32X and Sega CD, SNES, Gameboy, Game Gear, the whole kit. Fricking only child of divorced single parents.
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We had a lot of shit, most got lost in time or was stolen from us from crackheads rebuilding our roof after a tree landed on it. There was stuff that was worth money. Old SNES games Sega games, PS1 games(those are getting crazy)etc.
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No need to be upset, I like front and rear projection TVs
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But they are better viewed in low light
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I always think of these as the carl tv
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This. My dad payed $4200 for a Hitachi Ultravision in 1996
Now you can get a 4K tv for $1200 as long as you agree to mandatory ads and data selling
This was that hitachi. The rear panel was fun to explore for me because you had speaker terminals. Wireless transmitting. Subwoofer and video out connections. Way cooler than the tv in my room with coax only
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The ones that had the closing wood door panels was neat
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We had one like that but it was glass on the other side. Had a Proscan tv.
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>Proscan tv.
This one, I found it so quick..Man, this brings back some memories.
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>Proscan tv.
This one, I found it so quick..Man, this brings back some memories.
Nice. I’d love to know who made that rear projection tv we had with the door panels but I’ve never come across a photo with the brand visible and the manual wasn’t in my dads filling cabinet of manuals
Or flatscreens and hdtv's became a lot more easier and cheaper to make. Even a flatscreen or a simple 1080p tv was a huge deal, now you can buy a tv in any resolution that you fricking want. Just stupid racist shit.
That $10,000 OLED tv is the same size as an $600 LED tv. You might be able to tell the difference in picture quality, but a woman who is just going to turn on the Office on Netflix or watch Youtube videos isn't. Back in the day CRT TVs capped out around 25-30" diagonally, so the guy with the 40" TV was a cut above the rest.
I don’t care, id pay more if it mean not getting blasted with LG ads on my tv every time it was idle for more than 2 minutes. Or having pop up ads Everytime I change inputs.
I paid $2500 for an LG C9 in 2019 and from what k heard that was the last year before they started jamming in even more ads
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I have a smart tv and it does none of that, might be something with your settings.
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My C9 doesn’t do that but if you were to buy a LG tv today it will
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I was gonna buy a new TV but another spy device in my home is not really something I want. Still rocking my trusty 10 year old Full HD TV.
I got one like this for free in Craigslist several years ago. It would turn off randomly. Would see more and more listed. Such a bastard to move due to the weight. Ended up giving it away myself after a year.
My friends older brother had one of those big screen TVs back in the mid-90s. Fricking thing took up half the room. The back of if it was MASSIVE. Like you needed a forklift to move this thing. Also, the screen burned your eyes.
Yeah, I remember the nickname for these things was "boat anchor" and for good reason. Some landlords would explicitly forbid them in apartments or on the second floors of houses.
I had one in my old college dorm. Not like the ones from the 90s, but a Sony Vega from the early-00s. That fricker was such a pain in the ass to move that I left it there when I graduated. A little gift for the next resident.
I noticed the average consumer of media in the past 10 years has cared less and less about quality of the stuff they're watching. They don't buy physical media anymore they rather stream (which is worse quality), they rather watch a movie on their 13 inch laptop screen or their phone instead of a 65" tv. They rather listen to stuff on their shitty alibaba $5 earbuds instead of a quality headset or speaker system, etc etc.
Reading posts in this thread when it comes down to it you can have a huge TV with insane resolution but it doesn't mean what you're watching will be any better than an 80s TV
Big screens are still a status symbol. It's that back then having smallish screens was normalized so the big boys really stood out. Now everyone expects you to have a larger screen and if you have a small one they probably think a bit less of your setup. Higher standards have been normalized.
They should sell them without speakers. Anybody who wants a decent living standard will have mid-range bookshelf speakers as a minimum to play music through. No reason not to hook the television up to the amp for that.
It wasn't even that long ago. There's a scene in Extras, which came out in like 2007, where Darren talks about buying a 52 inch plasma TV for 3,500 pounds. That's like $6,000, and with inflation, probably $10,000 today
Sometimes when I look at my family members staring at the 85” on the wall, I see the tv as their faces. Because that’s what they are. Little cameras to record the big tv so their faces and voices can be walking tvs with the same message.
Back in the 90's my uncle bought an 80 inch TV and every Superbowl there would always be 100 people at his house watching the game. I remember everyone would throw in money and they would order about 10 large pizzas
I was smol back then so I would just go to my cousins room with about a dozen kids and we would all take turns playing Mario Kart on the N64
Big Screen Projection TVs cost like $5000 in 90s money. It was a huge status symbol.
You could buy a 10,000$ OLED today, and grils won't look at you twice. Wat happen?!
Because back then you really didn't do things in payments(that often), if you had the money, you had the money. So that means if you got a big ass tv, you were the baddest motherfricker on the block. They weren't cheap, they were VERY heavy, and for the time, the picture was so clean and pristine it made you lose consciousness because your mind wasn't ready for that shit.
Nah the picture was soft and not that great. It was lighter than a CRT of equivalent screen size. It just wasn't feasible to make CRTs that big and an LCD panel that size at the time would have been even more expensive.
It was great for the time you fricking troglodyte.
nah they looked kino as frick
>the picture was so clean and pristine it made you lose consciousness because your mind wasn't ready for that shit.
God damn these larping zoomers.
Projection tvs had the shittiest image even as a toddler I noticed how bad they were.
Tv's don't do well when you're trying to take pics of them, especially older ones. Nice try tho.
Yeah it looked better with your eyes, every childhood photos I’ve seen with the TV on doesn’t look good
Why is that, what did I just explain to you in another post?
I’m agreeing you by posting my own anecdotal evidence from family photos
Then why are you saying it doesn't look good? The camera's going to mess with the TV
I’m saying they don’t look good in a still photograph but look fine when actually sitting in front of one
Ok, you've already made that point.
We’re all frens here anon. Just people who can appreciate and respect old TVs
Nah they always looked like shit, we just didn't know any better at the time. I still have a Sony Trinitron CRT for retro gaming and rose colored glasses don't change the fact that it's 480i resolution.
holy shit, turning the console sideways to keep the cord away from the screen never fricking occured to me
t. apparently moronic 40 year old boomer who filthily played with the cord dangling in front of the screen a lot
Yeah, that's pretty moronic.
Even 80s tvs looked fine but you’d get a color tint on film because the whole balance of the tv was off compared to the toom
What game were you playing? Looks cool
Jurassic park on Sega. Specifically the raptor Visitors center level https://youtu.be/tj3et7Nkb7c?si=k2zZBtqBviySJDDP
That's the game that tricked me into getting a Genesis as a child instead of a SNES, a choice that I would regret ever since then. I picked a mediocre movie license game instead of Chrono Trigger/FFIII/Super Metroid/SMW/Yoshi's Island/DKC/Mega Man X/Mega Man 7/etc
I had a SNES and a Genesis, lmao.
Oh I had a buddy who had everything. Genesis with 32X and Sega CD, SNES, Gameboy, Game Gear, the whole kit. Fricking only child of divorced single parents.
We had a lot of shit, most got lost in time or was stolen from us from crackheads rebuilding our roof after a tree landed on it. There was stuff that was worth money. Old SNES games Sega games, PS1 games(those are getting crazy)etc.
No need to be upset, I like front and rear projection TVs
But they are better viewed in low light
I always think of these as the carl tv
This was that hitachi. The rear panel was fun to explore for me because you had speaker terminals. Wireless transmitting. Subwoofer and video out connections. Way cooler than the tv in my room with coax only
The ones that had the closing wood door panels was neat
We had one like that but it was glass on the other side. Had a Proscan tv.
>Proscan tv.
This one, I found it so quick..Man, this brings back some memories.
Nice. I’d love to know who made that rear projection tv we had with the door panels but I’ve never come across a photo with the brand visible and the manual wasn’t in my dads filling cabinet of manuals
damn, you should see an old photo of an old tv taken with an old camera
>back then you really didn't do things in payments(that often
You really don't know what you're talking about. Credit cards and payment plans existed.
I know, that's why I said that.
They would if you walked around with it , youd get alot of pussy if you did that.
I feel like conspicuous consumption got played out. It's a lot more subtle now. A $900 pair of jeans. A $2000 pair of shoes. Stuff like that.
Now on Affirm with 100% APR.
>The jeans are now $1,200
Thanks credit card companies!
if anything it's far more visible, but very much relegated to lower class morons e.g. irpods
It still exists, it's just shifted to buying experiences rather than things. A $5000 trip to Paris is much more prestigious than a $5000 TV
best buy started accepting ebt
Or flatscreens and hdtv's became a lot more easier and cheaper to make. Even a flatscreen or a simple 1080p tv was a huge deal, now you can buy a tv in any resolution that you fricking want. Just stupid racist shit.
They don't know what OLED is.
How do we educate them?
You can't. They only know what ads tell them. That's why Apple shit is attractive, despite being ubiquitous
That $10,000 OLED tv is the same size as an $600 LED tv. You might be able to tell the difference in picture quality, but a woman who is just going to turn on the Office on Netflix or watch Youtube videos isn't. Back in the day CRT TVs capped out around 25-30" diagonally, so the guy with the 40" TV was a cut above the rest.
I guarantee you no women ever got wet from someone describing shadow detail and contrast
This. My dad payed $4200 for a Hitachi Ultravision in 1996
Now you can get a 4K tv for $1200 as long as you agree to mandatory ads and data selling
>mandatory ads and data selling
Just never connect it to wifi and use an apple tv for streaming.
They should release a dumb version then, otherwise you’re paying for smart tv tech and never using it
Normal dumb TV are often sold as digital street signs and billboards. It's the same shit but without the smart components.
Ads subsidize the cost of tvs.
I don’t care, id pay more if it mean not getting blasted with LG ads on my tv every time it was idle for more than 2 minutes. Or having pop up ads Everytime I change inputs.
I paid $2500 for an LG C9 in 2019 and from what k heard that was the last year before they started jamming in even more ads
I have a smart tv and it does none of that, might be something with your settings.
My C9 doesn’t do that but if you were to buy a LG tv today it will
I was gonna buy a new TV but another spy device in my home is not really something I want. Still rocking my trusty 10 year old Full HD TV.
>Now you can get a 4K tv for $1200 as long as you agree to mandatory ads and data selling
You can buy a 4k television for $200 on amazon.
Even worse, now you get shilled amazing prime and shitty shows every second you’re not actively watching content
Where does this happen? Where do you live?
Chicago
Nice, what part?
Chinatown (I’m white though)
Good food over there. I miss Chicago, I lived in Wicker Park for a long time.
Wicker is alright, I have some friends ho there. West loop is hot right now, and Lake View is popular for younger people
I used to love going out in Lake View. West Loop always felt a little too bougie and soulless for me lol.
True. WL is where all the rich new transplants live. $60 drinks and $2000 studio apartments. It’s really changed in the last 6 years
>362 lbs
I have a 4K TV that I paid like $350 for. No ads either. Not an OLED, sure, but 4K isn't some high tech thing anymore
I got one like this for free in Craigslist several years ago. It would turn off randomly. Would see more and more listed. Such a bastard to move due to the weight. Ended up giving it away myself after a year.
Inflationbros? Our response?
$200 aren't enough to fill two bags when you go to the supermarket
Buy a dumb TV and a knockoff android smartbox.
No, they were like $2000. My dad bought a 45” rear projection tv for that much back in 1993.
>45”
I worked at best buy when plasmas 1st came out and they were running around 10k for a 42 inch screen. Fricking insane
What is the 2023 equivalent?
sound bar
lol u tk him 2 da bar|?
MODS
unironically an exotic car
A new Porsche
A head full of hair after 40
Get in, lad! 44, and still rockin' a full head of hair. I'm the frickin' king of the block.
A fully paid house.
Sending your kids to college
It still is
A big tv in a big house. The house was always expected for "status symbol." Now people put $800 75" TCLs in their apartment.
If you have a 2000+ Square Foot house AND a 65" OLED or bigger, that's the same as those who were buying rear projection behemoths 20 years ago
a traditional relationship
one million instagram followers
I remember when having a tiny phone was a status symbol. I guess the two averaged out.
If you don't have a 7lb Iphone24 in your pocket that's literally almost carrying a brick around, you're peak poor.
>tfw will never own the energizer battery brickphone
They still sell those in Africa, to villagers with no electricity at home. You could import one.
Yeah it's insane how frikkin old I am yet still have a rabid sex drive
200 dollars for a 65 inch 4k tv at walmart now, kek
Apparently all the screens are made by LG anyway? I heard that working at Walmart.
How many people did it take to deliver a giant CRT?
My friends older brother had one of those big screen TVs back in the mid-90s. Fricking thing took up half the room. The back of if it was MASSIVE. Like you needed a forklift to move this thing. Also, the screen burned your eyes.
Yeah, I remember the nickname for these things was "boat anchor" and for good reason. Some landlords would explicitly forbid them in apartments or on the second floors of houses.
I had one in my old college dorm. Not like the ones from the 90s, but a Sony Vega from the early-00s. That fricker was such a pain in the ass to move that I left it there when I graduated. A little gift for the next resident.
And computers used to take up an entire room. Times change, and tech gets cheaper as it gets refined.
I was the coolest kid on the block when my parents bought a 65" Mitsubishi HDTV
Feet
not just feet but feet/pussy/ass, that posture is the sniffing zone
>forgot sniffing pits
NGMI
>picrel
female back..... mmmmmmmmm..... yummy................
We had one, watched so much soft core porn
I noticed the average consumer of media in the past 10 years has cared less and less about quality of the stuff they're watching. They don't buy physical media anymore they rather stream (which is worse quality), they rather watch a movie on their 13 inch laptop screen or their phone instead of a 65" tv. They rather listen to stuff on their shitty alibaba $5 earbuds instead of a quality headset or speaker system, etc etc.
Does she frick the TV?
Reading posts in this thread when it comes down to it you can have a huge TV with insane resolution but it doesn't mean what you're watching will be any better than an 80s TV
Big screens are still a status symbol. It's that back then having smallish screens was normalized so the big boys really stood out. Now everyone expects you to have a larger screen and if you have a small one they probably think a bit less of your setup. Higher standards have been normalized.
MGM really looks good in 3D
im all about multiple tiny screens scattered through my apartment that I connect and disconnect at will with blutooth.
Do you have one in every room? Waterproof shower display?
Not yet, I usually leave the tub for quiet contemplation. That sounds ideal though, or at least a jbl ducttaped to the wall
I mean it still kinda of is. Most of us aren't rocking a 80" 8K display in our lofts.
It's for the best honestly, you can get a half decent tv for a hundred dollars sometimes. Only bad part is the cringe speakers
They should sell them without speakers. Anybody who wants a decent living standard will have mid-range bookshelf speakers as a minimum to play music through. No reason not to hook the television up to the amp for that.
he's rapping about big screen TVs, blonde's, 40's, and b***hes. You're rapping about homosexuals and vicodin. I can't sell this shit.
It wasn't even that long ago. There's a scene in Extras, which came out in like 2007, where Darren talks about buying a 52 inch plasma TV for 3,500 pounds. That's like $6,000, and with inflation, probably $10,000 today
>2007
>wasn't even that long ago
Anon, I...
>Remember when having a big TV was a status symbol? Those days are long gone.
Sometimes when I look at my family members staring at the 85” on the wall, I see the tv as their faces. Because that’s what they are. Little cameras to record the big tv so their faces and voices can be walking tvs with the same message.
Back in the 90's my uncle bought an 80 inch TV and every Superbowl there would always be 100 people at his house watching the game. I remember everyone would throw in money and they would order about 10 large pizzas
I was smol back then so I would just go to my cousins room with about a dozen kids and we would all take turns playing Mario Kart on the N64