CRT Television Sets/Computer Monitors: In late 2004, I purchased a Sanyo 13" CRT color television set from Walmart. With tax and everything, it cost me $80. I would bring that TV to...

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

In late 2004, I purchased a Sanyo 13" CRT color television set from Walmart. With tax and everything, it cost me $80. I would bring that TV to work occasionally. My first TV that I bought solely for myself, and not my parents TV, was a Sony Trinitron 12" color TV set. Bought in the early 1970s. That TV cost me about $350. Its color sharpness excelled any of my parents TV sets. I learned how to operate a Windows operating system on a CRT monitor, Windows XP. My Sony Trinitron TV lasted me 12 years before it died on me. The Sanyo lasted 15 years. Before each of them died on me, I did own a flat screen TV. I now own two flat screen TVs. Those CRT television sets were long lasting, even though they were standard definition. RIP CRT TV sets. And CRT computer monitors.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Amen.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

As far as I'm concern it's "good riddance to CRT TVs and monitors". They were big and bulky and heavy. If you still have one it's hard to get rid of it. The electronic recycler around here won't take them, flat panels only. I had a 32" Sony CRT TV. It took two men and a boy to move the damn thing. The 50" Samsung I have now I can pick up and carry it by myself. And the picture looks better.
The CRTs served their purpose but it's time to move on.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

EdJ0307 wrote:

As far as I'm concern it's "good riddance to CRT TVs and monitors". They were big and bulky and heavy. If you still have one it's hard to get rid of it. The electronic recycler around here won't take them, flat panels only. I had a 32" Sony CRT TV. It took two men and a boy to move the damn thing. The 50" Samsung I have now I can pick up and carry it by myself. And the picture looks better.
The CRTs served their purpose but it's time to move on.

Yeah, good riddance. They were big and heavy, hard to move, and they required a lot more power. They were also FAR less stable, requiring weekly calibration in a photo lab environment (I put nine of them in the color correction area of the lab I worked in).

I still have a 32" Samsung CRT TV. It was excellent, used as an NTSC SD device, since it was an odd 4:3 HDTV monitor/receiver. My kids play old video games on it when they're home. It weighs 127 pounds and sits on top of a corner fireplace (that we don't use). One of these days, it's going to the county recycler...

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

EdJ0307 wrote:

As far as I'm concern it's "good riddance to CRT TVs and monitors". They were big and bulky and heavy. If you still have one it's hard to get rid of it. The electronic recycler around here won't take them, flat panels only. I had a 32" Sony CRT TV. It took two men and a boy to move the damn thing. The 50" Samsung I have now I can pick up and carry it by myself. And the picture looks better.
The CRTs served their purpose but it's time to move on.

You are correct about the weight. My late grandmother owned a 23" RCA TV set. She lived in an upstairs apartment. And, I was the one, who had to take her TV for repair service. And, I had to pick up the TV, and later, carry it upstairs for her. Fortunately, I was younger back then. I was able to dispose of my TV at an electronics waste facility, for free. When I arrived there, I saw wooden pallets, full of almost everything electronic. Wrapped tightly, in a clear wrap.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Ditto. R.I.P.
Went thru a bunch of PC CRTs, from the early 80s on. I now have 22" and a 32" flat screen. 1 hand pickup.
I loved my old projector screen TV. As long as you were right in front, it was great. BUT I moved upstairs, and it stayed.
Bought a 25" CRT, and 2 people carried it up. It didn't make this last move..
Bought a 55" TCL (BestBuy sale- brand new, 2 years old, semi smart) weighs 28 pounds. The box and packing weigh more than the screen does. I did the math- I could leave it on all year, 24/7, and it would use less energy than my CRT would in a month of 6 hour days.
AND I just looked it up- my 32", at 5 hour days, would use $5 to $7 worth. Per year.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

When my youngest son started selling his custom design T Shirts (Shavlik Randolph) in HS, he came home with a couple thousand $, and the first thing he bought was the biggest 34” Sony Trinitron HD made - it weighed 258 lbs, and I watched him carry it (literally) off to college. A few years ago and well more than a decade later, it ended up in our beach condo. I finally got someone to take it away (still working) without having to pay them. RIP indeed.

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

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CRTs generated a lot more radiation than the new flat screens so in the long run they were hard on your eyes specially if you got too close to them.
Bruce

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

RIP.

Samsung all the way - superb tv's.

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

My daughter gave us a flat screen tv a few years ago that they had in their rv. When I called home, my hubby told me our big old console CRT tv had died that very day, a happy coincidence.
The first thing I noticed was that our electric bill went down. After replacing light bulbs with LED ones and old TVs with new flatscreens, our electric bill is half what it used to be.

ddgm Loc: Hamilton, Ontario & Fort Myers, FL

I paid $2200 for a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 22" CRT monitor, sometime in the late 1990s. At the time I had a lot more disposable income. When I think/hate to think about how much money I have gone through on computers, it makes my photography expenditure seem meager. But, I don't regret one penny of it.

1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA

EdJ0307 wrote:

As far as I'm concern it's "good riddance to CRT TVs and monitors". They were big and bulky and heavy. If you still have one it's hard to get rid of it. The electronic recycler around here won't take them, flat panels only. I had a 32" Sony CRT TV. It took two men and a boy to move the damn thing. The 50" Samsung I have now I can pick up and carry it by myself. And the picture looks better.
The CRTs served their purpose but it's time to move on.

Those old CRT's seem to gain weight as the years go by. The one I owned and replaced about 15 years ago was a strain to lift and move then, and sitting in an out building now, I need help to even budge it. Did I lose that much strength between the age of 70 and 85? I can no longer do pullups either, and I am an active muscular male.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Still got (and use) our 26" Panasonuc CRT. Excellent picture. There's a wall big enough for a 72" flat screen but we can't decide on a location. And then there's the furniture - what will it go on? Can't agree on that! How high, you must be joking. Over the fireplace; might get to hot (fire hasn't been lit for 6 years). Take the fireplace out then - I'm not going through all that decorating malarkey again - not to mention new carpet.

I'm not sure it'll retire before I do. But if we don't come to a conclusion before Mrs. N's cataract opp. I'm guessing the CRT will look good with a sledgehammer through it!

It's closing in on 25 years old, been through 3 kids and one ON/OFF button, and still somebody wants to renew my insurance policy on it every week.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Many years ago I bought a 21-inch CRT to for engineered drawings. It weighted 75-pounds and took up most of my desk and I at times if I would eat lunch in my office I would put my sandwich on it to keep it warm. Oh those were the days..!

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

sippyjug104 wrote:

Many years ago I bought a 21-inch CRT to for engineered drawings. It weighted 75-pounds and took up most of my desk and I at times if I would eat lunch in my office I would put my sandwich on it to keep it warm. Oh those were the days..!

My father bought his first ever color TV just before the Apollo Moon landing in July 1969. It was a 23" I finally saw Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite do the News in color. I watched the moon landing in B&W. But, the broadcasters, from news outlets were in color. My family was one of the first to have a color TV on our block. As, they were expensive. Even in 1969.