Albert, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:56 PM, said:
It's tough to even give away such large CRT sets now, especially if someone has to come up and move it themselves. I was lucky to sell a 35" Sony XBR set several years ago. They are great for old game consoles, but that's really the main draw of CRTs given how much HD LCD/Plasma sets have come down in price in the last few years. I hated having to move that thing, it was the single worst piece of "furniture" I had, and required at least three people to carry safely.
..Al
I guess so! I bought a 35" Trinitron - the dark grey kind, not the Vega stuff - for $100 and it's absolutely MINT condition. And yeah, it's great for light gun games on the old consoles. There's the market!! It was an incredible thing to move. To be honest, I had wanted one of these for more than 10 years, and back in the CRT TV days, the Sony really had an upper-echelon picture, so I was *really* appreciative - and I still am. (most LCDs look so good now even the cheap ones look as good as Sony)
The person that went with me to get it couldn't believe that I wanted "such a huge heavy piece of dinosaur shit" but they weren't a console gamer. I got this in Nashville from Craigslist. I also had a choice - I picked what sounded like the best one at the cheapest price and it was.
I'd really like to have one of the 40" Sony "hi-scan" WEGA CRTs - we're talking like 300 lbs here. I knew someone who bought one new back when that was the bangin' TV and they paid like $3000. Had a subwoofer built-in, did 1080i.....kind of the ultimate CRT TV ever made. I guess people nowdays would laugh at that but I'd still like it one day, if I could get it cheap!! Trouble is, it's hard for many selling those big bastards to realize the true [low] market value because they can't get out of their head what they paid for it 6 years ago....
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