Comments on: The biggest CRT ever made: Sony’s PVM-4300 https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300 David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:17:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jon https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/#comment-57397 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:17:20 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=35262#comment-57397 I watched that video! And I grew up in the days when we had to settle for TV screens of only 20-odd inches at best (rear projection sets never made much impact in the UK).

In 1989 the BBC TV programme “Tomorrow’s World” showed a feature on ‘the home of 2020’ which would include “a metre-wide LCD screen, as a TV, a picture frame and gaming display” (I paraphrase). I watched that show as a child and thought the screen sounded amazing but almost impossible to imagine. A metre wide!? No way… Of course, in the real world of 2020 I bought a 65in OLED. Tomorrow’s World had got it right for once.

PS you can watch this segment of Tomorrow’s World on the BBC Archive YouTube channel.

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