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The world's largest tube TV—a 440 pound, 43" Internet legend—has finally been found and saved from certain annihilation
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The world's largest tube TV—a 440 pound, 43" Internet legend—has finally been found and saved from certain annihilation

Allan Rose Hill
Dec 26, 2024
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The Sony Trinitron KX-45ED1, aka the PVM-4300, is considered to be the world's largest consumer tube TV set. With a 43" screen, the hulking CRT weighed 440 pounds. Released in 1988 in Japan and the US a couple years later, the built-to-orderproduct reportedly cost $40,000. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't a big seller.

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