I thought I was a baller with my 22" RCA TV with actual composite inputs. No fuzzy RF for this guy!
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Large TV”
Me, having grown up in a time period where 13-19 inch 4:3 tvs were the norm, and 25 inches was big screen.
“Oh, you can find 40 inch tv’s pretty cheap!”
sees the rest of the title
“Oh…so the yardposts have moved, have they?”
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Knew one family that had a big rear projection in their “media room”. Going to watch movies at their house was a legit event.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
they have moved, but I wouldn’t call a 40" TV large for almost 10 years now.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I grew up in the 80s.
Squibbles@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Me too, and I remember in the mid 2000’s before flat screens took off the biggest CRT you could get was 36", or there may have been a 40" but it was ultra expensive. One thing though is that the wider aspect ratio of modern tvs inflates the size number if you were to watch 3:4 aspect shows on a modern tv you are losing a bunch of viewing area on the sides.
Regardless, modern tvs are indeed insanely huge, and I’m loving it.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
IIRC, 36” was the biggest standard CRT that was sold do consumers, after that you were looking at rear projection screens which got as big as 80” (maybe more, not sure.).