Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And then I remember that these people exist, and some of them are likely posting here.

Oh, yes.

 

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[Gradine]

Scamception

 

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GE Giant Screen TV with integrated VCR from 1978.
I cannot imagine how much these things weighed

 

[J.Quondam]

GE Giant Screen TV with integrated VCR from 1978.
I cannot imagine how much these things weighed

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Based on a little unverified googling, it's a 45" screen (rear projection, apparently) weighing 359 lbs. It cost $2800 in 1978 (without vcr, if i understand correctly), or nearly $13,000 in 2022 dollars.



My parents just bought a 50" smart tv for under $300 last weekend.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

GE Giant Screen TV with integrated VCR from 1978.
I cannot imagine how much these things weighed

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My paternal grandparents had an entertainment center consisting of a TV (CRT* tech), record player and speakers in a piece of wooden furniture akin to a sideboard. I never had to move it, but it was doubtlessly similarly massive.








* for you youngsters, that’s Cathode Ray Tube.

 

[Staffan]

I feel like i need this

 

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It's on me

Schraffts at New York World’s Fair 1964​

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My parents just bought a 50" smart tv for under $300 last weekend.

Since it's a smart TV, a lot of that is subsidized by selling their data.

 

[Ryujin]

GE Giant Screen TV with integrated VCR from 1978.
I cannot imagine how much these things weighed

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Based on a little unverified googling, it's a 45" screen (rear projection, apparently) weighing 359 lbs. It cost $2800 in 1978 (without vcr, if i understand correctly), or nearly $13,000 in 2022 dollars.

Sounds about right. It took 4 of us to move one, from one side of the basement to the other, without risk of dropping it. Two would have done, but with a lot of straining and if we'd dropped it, well.... That wouldn't have been good.