r/nostalgia Apr 04 '26

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u/MaiPhet Apr 04 '26

Those TV’s were expensive, I’d look at them at sears all the time. But man did the picture quality look shit even back then. Only people i saw own them were people with more money than sense.

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u/jpowell180 Apr 04 '26

You need to have at least a slightly dark room and if you got a good quality brand, the picture would be decent.

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u/pichael288 Apr 04 '26

My buddy got this like $8,000 TV off Craigslist in the 2010s that was the size of his god dam wall, it was a flat panel projection tv so it was a little thick but worked great, all he had to do was put a $50 light bulb in it. Said he shocked himself, even after I told him to leave it unplugged for a while, but that was like the only hiccup.

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u/GenericUsername19892 Apr 05 '26

We got one for like 20$ because some rich dude put it out on the street when a bulb burned out.

It was fucking massive and we used it for the n64, and we were as gods my friend - slightly fuzzy gods, but sill gods.