The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

Posted by giuliomagnifico 12/22/2025

The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300(dfarq.homeip.net)

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mitchell_h 12/22/2025|

way back when, I had a 32" CRT from SGI attached to an o2. So heavy I had to buy a special desk to hold it. I can't imagine carrying that PVM-4300 anywhere.

lizknope 12/22/2025||

I had a 36" 4:3 Toshiba CRT that had component video inputs for 1080i signals. If you displayed a 16:9 aspect ratio signal you could turn on a mode to change the display area to make the electron beam display all 1080 lines in that area so the other system didn't need to add black bars. This way you got the full 1080i resolution in a 4:3 TV

I used to go to a local high end home theater store and they had the Sony 40" XBR TV that weighed 300 pounds or something crazy.

stuff4ben 12/22/2025|

$40k invested in AAPL in 1990 would be worth about $40m today. $40k is about what $100k is today. So what stock would you invest $100k in today, that in 35 years would give you a similar return?

rob74 12/22/2025||

Keep in mind that AAPL came pretty close to becoming absolutely worthless around the mid 1990s before Steve Jobs rode to the rescue. Which is to say, you would really need a crystal ball to make such predictions. I could definitely see an "alternate universe" where Apple fared a bit worse and Commodore didn't mismanage the Amiga as much, then Commodore could be in the place where Apple is now...

tacker2000 12/22/2025||

yea, most people would have dumped the stock back then and not HODL'ed it through the 2000s until now...

kergonath 12/22/2025||

Some people found the faith and got onboard in 1998, though, when the iMac took the world by storm. If only I held for a bit longer… :D (I never had $40k to invest, though, so the returns would be smaller anyway).

kilpikaarna 12/22/2025|||

I know I'm ngmi with this attitude, but I just find it hard to believe there even could be such a thing. All the numbers point towards us hitting up against planetary limits, at some point something's got to give.

Positive news about e.g. solar PV shrinks away to some miniscule number when compared against the big picture, do nothing to address the myriad other things such as species loss or peak-phosphorus and the gains are eaten up by Jevon's paradox (or LLM datacenter buildout) anyway.

Even the past performance of AAPL feels like it's more to do with central bank funny money than the real economy. Numbers keep going up but in the rral world everything gets increasingly enshittified.

Change My Mind.

Happy Holidays!

weberer 12/22/2025||

>All the numbers point towards us hitting up against planetary limits, at some point something's got to give.

Sounds like space is the next big thing then.

nancyminusone 12/22/2025||

S&P 500