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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
What goes around comes around; we have come full-circle as far as heavy TVs go. Today's large-screen CRT sets weigh upwards of 150 pounds as well (one recent-vintage Zenith 32" table model I saw in an ad weighed some 200 pounds plus if it weighed an ounce), and large-screen projection sets aren't exactly featherweights either. Don't forget the console TVs of the 1950s through the '70s; these TVs were in wood cabinets and weighed probably 100 pounds if not more. The combo sets with AM/FM radio/phono (tube type with a heavy power transformer) were likely even heavier yet. Even the solid-state consoles by Zenith, Magnavox, et al. of the 1960s-'70s weren't exactly light. The bulk of these sets' weight, aside from the cabinet (which in most 1950s-60s sets was made of very heavy wood), was and is to this day the CRT; the larger the screen, the larger and heavier the tube will be, even though the TV chassis itself in today's sets is just a large PC board.
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The newer flat face tubes are much heavier than the old tube with the rounded fronts.The glass is much thicker in the front. Sony Wegas are the heaviest of all.Sony Trinitron tubes have always been heavy but the new ones are heavier.The 36 inch Wega weighs upwards of 250 ponds.They even had a 40 inch Wega that was 400 pounds.They no longer make that one.I don't know how that compares in weight to the older 40 inch Mitsubishi tube they made in the 90s.Thakfully I've never been involved in moving a 40 inch tube set but I've had a hold of 1 side of the 36" Wega more times than I cared to.