yeah my parents had a trinitron, that thing weighed a whole cattle herd. The magnetic field started failing in the later years so one corner was forever distorted. It was an issue playing Halo because I couldn’t read the motion tracker (lower left)
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Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 weeks agoI had a flat CRT. It was even heavier than a regular one.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Soggytoast@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
They’re under a pretty high vacuum inside, so the flat glass has to be thicker to be strong enough
Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah I suspect there’s some lensing going on in there too which adds more weight.