When was the last time you used a CRT for serious television watching?

[shortylickens]

We had one when I left home in 1997 and after boot camp I gave up TV for a while. By the time I started again most people had LCD's. Some went the plasma route. In 2007 I actually picked up a widescreen CRT from Philips and used it for about 6 years then got a small LCD for the living room. Gave away the CRT to a friend of a friend. Never went back.

 

[ultimatebob]

Probably around 2009. I got rid of my 27" Toshiba Tube TV with a built-in DVD player and VHS tape deck in my bedroom, and replaced it with a 40" 1080p Sony HDTV with a Blu-ray player.

 

[zinfamous]

2006ish

 

[Captante]

I had one of these minus the fancy stand. It died in 2008 and was the last CRT I will ever own. Actually it had an awesome picture especially for upscaling but it was freaking huge and weighed nearly 250lbs.

 

[ultimatebob]

I had one of these minus the fancy stand. It died in 2008 and was the last CRT I will ever own. Actually it had an awesome picture especially for upscaling but it was freaking huge and weighed nearly 250lbs.

Yep... I had a 32" Sony WEGA CRT back in 2001. That thing weighed a TON, and all the weight was in the front. You needed two strong dudes to move that thing.

 

[LikeLinus]

I had one of these minus the fancy stand. It died in 2008 and was the last CRT I will ever own. Actually it had an awesome picture especially for upscaling but it was freaking huge and weighed nearly 250lbs.

Ha, that's the same one we had in our Master Bedroom. We had a Mitsubishi 43" or 46" rear projection in the Living Room. Then we moved on to Panasonic Plasmas and never looked back. Maybe around 2002ish?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

2009-ish
We probably would have stuck with it longer just our tube TV developed distorted color in the opposite quarters of the tube. I think it was top left and bottom right. Colors looked faded and had a pink tint if I remember correctly.

 

[Captante]

Yep... I had a 32" Sony WEGA CRT back in 2001. That thing weighed a TON, and all the weight was in the front. You needed two strong dudes to move that thing.

Mine was the 34 inch so even bigger! Worst thing was every place on the unit there was to carry the dang thing was semi-sharp and dug into your hands painfully!

Apparently they also made a WEGA (?) 36 inch 4:3 model which was OVER 300lbs!

I could have replaced the main-board for around $300 back then but I decided the money was better put towards the price of a Toshiba 37 inch LCD instead.

 

[mindless1]

I had the 4:3 ratio predecessor to that WEGA, and the custom stand for it which I still use with a different (LCD) TV on it. Very sturdy stand, but had to be for a ~230lbs TV. The pathetic part was that was probably the most expensive CRT we ever bought, yet turned out to be the shortest lived one. Granted part of that was opting not to have it repaired because everything was going HD ratios and LCD prices were dropping.

My mother still has a Panasonic 27" CRT she uses in one room, has to be at least 25 years old at this point, old enough that it was made in Japan... which is probably why it's still working. It was top of the line (for that size) at the time, normally $700 or so in 1995 dollars, but was at a local appliance store going out of business so was discounted to 50% off.

 

[BoomerD]

Sony Trinitron 27" died in...2009 I think...bought a used Sanyo on Craigslist...wow, that thing sucked. Bought my first Panasonic plasma that fall. I still have my last Plasma. Panasonic VT65...but it's boxed and in the garage. (Probably heat issues, screen develops red/pink "blobs" after watching for a while. STILL has a better picture than the 65" Samsung 4k 8000 series I bought to replace it.)

 

[IronWing]

1989

 

[brianmanahan]

hmm i think 2012 is when i went to LCD TV

 

[skyking]

2009-ish
We probably would have stuck with it longer just our tube TV developed distorted color in the opposite quarters of the tube. I think it was top left and bottom right. Colors looked faded and had a pink tint if I remember correctly.

LOL all of these stories sound so familiar. We had the hand-me-down 35" RCA that ( @ultimatebob ) weighed a ton and all out in the front.
I lost control of it and dribbled it on the wood floor right on the screen. I shit you not, it bounced up like a basketball.
After that, it was purple in the corners
After a while it faded to more of a pinkish hue, but it was toast. We went to a Panasonic plasma in 2009 and still rocking it to this day.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oddly enough, maybe a couple years ago?

My work was throwing out a small CRT with built in VCR. I have an odd soft spot for old tech that I grew up with and hate to see it go in the trash so I took it. I put it in the basement where my weights are and when I still had cable I actually setup the cable box on it. It was kind of comical seeing HD feed going to an old CRT. Not exactly, HD lol. But then I eventually cancelled cable as I was just not using it much anyway. I put the TV in storage and put my printer there instead as I don't print a lot and it was just taking up room in my office.

As far as actually sitting on the couch to watch TV, probably like 2009ish maybe? I'm pretty sure my parents still had a CRT when I moved out around that year.

 

[sdifox]

Probably 2004, Sony Trinitron 29"

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

CRT? '06 when I went to basic. Projector? Got a freebee in ... '09? used until '11? when I got a freebee plasma (which I still have actually).

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I still have a 20" JVC sitting in a closet, unused for several years. Not sure if I should trash it or take it to Goodwill. Had a 27" JVC that weighed close to 100 lbs. That went to the county dump after it died.

I had one of the earliest flat screens, a 30" Syntax Olevia. It had a glass front screen and metal frame/chassis making it very heavy for the size, somewhere around 70lbs. Made wall mounting it a chore. That died suddenly and without warning, just wouldn't turn on at all one day. Suspected a power board, but they were too costly.

Went to a Toshiba that was a little bigger and less than half the weight. It's still sitting on the cabinet, but I have no idea when the last time I turned it on was ... several years at least. No idea if it still works.

 

[JEDI]

We had one when I left home in 1997 and after boot camp I gave up TV for a while. By the time I started again most people had LCD's. Some went the plasma route. In 2007 I actually picked up a widescreen CRT from Philips and used it for about 6 years then got a small LCD for the living room. Gave away the CRT to a friend of a friend. Never went back.

still have one.
havent watched tv in 10+ years.

might get a lcd during the Superbowl sales because i plan on selling my house next year.
having a 24" crt in the living room is probably not a good look to potential buyers.

 

[HomerJS]

I had one of these minus the fancy stand. It died in 2008 and was the last CRT I will ever own. Actually it had an awesome picture especially for upscaling but it was freaking huge and weighed nearly 250lbs.

Wow. I had one of these. Last time I watched anything of significance was 2008 when Phillies won World Series. There was a small CRT in the back of the bar 6 people were watching and the signal came in 5 seconds before the rest of the bar watching 1080P. 6 people ruining the moment but I couldn't get it turned off.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

still have one.
havent watched tv in 10+ years.

might get a lcd during the Superbowl sales because i plan on selling my house next year.
having a 24" crt in the living room is probably not a good look to potential buyers.

meh all markets are different but any serious buyer is not going to be turned off by a tube TV being there. They will assume you are old.

 

[RLGL]

In '14, it was my first TV with a remote. Purchased in the late '90's

 

[shortylickens]

still have one.
havent watched tv in 10+ years.

might get a lcd during the Superbowl sales because i plan on selling my house next year.
having a 24" crt in the living room is probably not a good look to potential buyers.

Unless they're hipsters!

 

[MtnMan]

Bought a 55" rear projection TV when we moved in 2002. It was huge, 5 feet tall, 5 feet wide, probably 2.5 feet deep. 10 years later it died, and it was all I could do to get into the bed of my truck to haul if off to the dump.

 

[SKORPI0]

46" Sony 1080p LCD from a 36" Samsung CRT, early 2009.
Recycled the 150 lb. Samsung CRT Dec 2014 which still worked at that time, still have the Sony LCD.

 

[Sonikku]

I used a Sony FW900 for my monitor until it died at around 2010ish. I moved out of my mother's and had a 27" Panasonic flat screen for a year or so until 2012 when I got a 40" LCD, my first HDTV. Game on a 82 QLED now.

I had one of these minus the fancy stand. It died in 2008 and was the last CRT I will ever own. Actually it had an awesome picture especially for upscaling but it was freaking huge and weighed nearly 250lbs.

That looks just like the TV I sorely wanted, but couldn't dream of mustering the cash for; The Sony XBR960. It was $2000 and I was a poor college student at the time.