Rear projection TV in 1996

>rear projection TV in 1996
>weight: 362lbs
>price: $4000
JUST

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>weight: 362lbs

just like you're mom

>turn it on
>lights dim for a moment
Good times.

What cost $4000 in 1996 would cost $6479.99 in 2018.

Good thing my dad was rich in the 90s. And my mom didn't have to work either

We're these things common in the USA? I always remember seeing them in American films/TV shows in the 90s and early 2000s.
We never got them in the UK, and I was always torn that they looked really fucking stupid, but it would be cool having a TV that big.

>projection TV
Blegh, I always hated how these looked

one of the benefits though was that since it needed a stand it came with built in (although shitty) speaker system, this one had 3-channel DD with option for two rear hookups,

I just remember my babysitter had one in the late 80s and the image quality looked terrible unless you were watching it in complete darkness.

>his aunt and uncle weren’t moderately rich and had a projection tv in the basement that you played Power Stone with your cousins on

DUDE

>power stone

But they were SO fucking B I G
My friend, you know...

We had one of these in my first apartment around 2008. We got it for $50 on craigs. It was fucking SIKK for older video games and movies. We had a laserdisc and a VHS, it was rad.

they always had braveheart playing on theirs

I'm not sure how common they were but I had a few rich-ish friends in elementary who had them.
>ywn stay up all night in your best friend's attic playing Vice City on one of these again

>ask my dad for a tv with picture in picture cause my friend has one
>turns out it’s practically useless

My dad bought a tv like this, it fucking lasted for over 2 decades.

Oh hey, that's our old tv. It's been outside for years. Dad won't trash it because "it still works."

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ever press the MAGIC FOCUS button? pretty cool

Yeah and it didn't do shit
t. different user who had one in his house as a kid

but it popped up the cool
D I G I T A L C O N V E R G E N C E
letters on the screen in flashing RGB
>tfw one time pressed it as a kid while my dad was watching a show and he got pissed because it takes about 4 minutes for the whole thing