i remember when i was little, and went to my grandparents house, they had something like that.
raises hand
Twenty-seven years ago that 27 inch TV was huge!
Those TVs were in a lot of middle class homes. I think huge is pretty exaggerated. Having a house on the block with those 4 person 40-50 in TV’s was pretty common in a lot of areas IMO.
They weren’t huge at all. They were huge for that day.
Sure there was 40+ inch tvs if you were willing to shell out 10k plus.
Not that expensive at all.
In the 90s you could get a 40in for maybe like $500.
$500 in the 90s would be equivalent to around $1000 today. That’s a very expensive TV and more than I’ve spent on displays in total across my adult life (which includes some nice IPS computer displays)
I have a 75 in lg c1 in my theater and gaming room. Plenty of folks buy nicer displays. There are plenty of high end displays selling in volumes to support a very healthy display market.
This was true in the past as well. As stated, you talk to most middle class Americans and they knew at least one guy hosting a Superbowl party with a big ass TV.
Now most people need massive TVs, but still spend most of the time looking at the small screen on the phone.
Not me, I will refuse to watch any movie I’ve never seen on a tiny fucking phone screen. I at least have some standards
Same, I got a 65 inch OLED big boy for the cinematic experience. I’m going to use the bastard.
Dam. I was only able to afford the 55 inch in 2020 so I’m just rocking the CX. Which did have the hackable firmware to remove all ads from YouTube so I’m not complaining. https://rootmy.tv/
I got a CX too but I have no ads by just not signing the user agreement lol.
I’m talking about sponsor block for in video ads, but that’s very cool that you can just not agree to that, are you in Europe per chance. I’m also talking about ads before the YouTube video start
Because unless you’re buying a quality panel the difference between a 45 inch and 65 is usually $150. For something that you need 3 or 4 of (tops, if you have a family or large house) that’ll last 5+ years, the value proposition is high enough to spend the extra money.
Then they put that massive TV so close to where they sit that it’s just painful to actually watch anything on it because there is just no way you can get the entire image in your field of vision comfortably.
Maybe I am old, but I miss the days when people had some sense and bought TVs actually sized for the distance they will be sitting from it.
If I walk into a house and see that setup I know there is a dead cat under one of the old sofas.
Yes, I played Nintendo games in emulator on mine, it was so great.
That is one strong unit, the thought of the weight of those devices gives me back pain.
Especially if you had to hookup a new system or player to it.
My next level is going back to that. Not with a huge CRT or a full-blown hifi system, but a nice place with a screen, some offline way to play music/audio, a few books maybe…
I have that exact Aiwa music player.
Last Sunday when I went back to my parents house, I noticed that the clock was blinking because there was a blackout, so I turned on and I saw that the 5 CD changer not only gets stuck but the laser doesn’t see the discs anymore 😢
I’m sad
I would never in a million years would consider this as “next level” unless there’s a MegaDrive behind those doors under the TV.
EDIT: those seem like DVD cases by the stereo, so I’ll have to revise my previous comment and demand either a Sega Saturn, a Playstation or a Nitendo64.
I think that’s a ps3 to the left of the TV
Oh, I was thinking this was late 90’s setup, but if that’s a PS3 then it’s like 10 years later… but isn’t that just like a book or something?
It’s definitely a record player and not a PS3
I disagree, that looks like a record player. You can see the plastic cover and what looks like part of the plate on top. There’s also a VCR and I doubt there were many instances of PS3s and VCRs being plugged into the same CRT. I don’t doubt it happened, but this is giving more late 90s/early 2000s than mid/late 2000s
Ya now that you mentioned it the plastic part isn’t curved
Didn’t PS3 only have hdmi out, which wouldn’t work with this tv?
No, the PS3 had an analog multi-out still, it’s the PS4 which phased that out and went HDMI-only.
I have a N64 plugged into the back side of my TV. It has a flush mount, as in I plugged the N64 in before I hung it on the wall.
Was it common for people to have a turntable in their setup at this time?
Yes it was. The next jump after traditional records was cassettes. I find it hilarious that people are going back to records vs. digital
To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.
It’s hard to compete with analog since analog doesn’t really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.
Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally. Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.
Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.
To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?
What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That’s right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that’s played is compressed to all hell and back. You don’t really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.
Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.
I’m not crazy over vinyl, I can’t be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don’t have the money they’re asking for a new player; so I’m firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.
yes, but it was only used once because, as you can see, you had to pull the whole system out of the shelf to change records.
Today it’s all about finding a dumb display.
I understood they just don’t exist anymore, am I mistaken?
Last time i checked; you need to look at commercial displays or computer monitors. But they are more expensive than consumer smart TVs.
I mean, it’s still pretty dope.
That sound system stack needs at least 6 more components.
I’m just here to point out that I look down upon everybody, as I have some arbitrary consideration in my mind that makes me and the things I think, more next-levelier than all of you and what you like
I have two AF Toshibas. One 27 inches and the other 14. I would have more if I had a house. They are still awesome!
