• Pulptastic
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    6 months ago

    I had a flat CRT. It was even heavier than a regular one.

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      6 months ago

      They’re under a pretty high vacuum inside, so the flat glass has to be thicker to be strong enough

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        6 months ago

        Yeah I suspect there’s some lensing going on in there too which adds more weight.

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      6 months ago

      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)