Looking for the largest direct-view CRT, the Sony Trinitron PVM-4300

[kf4rca]

Here's a Toshiba 40" on the side of the road. It was totally trashed. Broke my heart.

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by kf4rca

Here's a Toshiba 40" on the side of the road. It was totally trashed. Broke my heart.

It's gotten to be that those (CRT TVs) are truly never seen being thrown away like that where I live, it's always flat TVs, and the trash service won't pick them up just like they wouldn't pick up the CRT TVs back when they were still around. So the flat screens sit at the side of the road till the town issues the property owner where they are a citation to get rid of their junk, and then they have to pay both the citation AND the extra removal fee to get rid of them. And no, taping a piece of white paper to the screen with "FREE" scrawled across it don't get them a free pass either, it usually takes a couple to three weeks for the town to issue the citation and then it's usually gone pretty quick after that.

There are 4 or 5 trash removal services one can contract with in town (the town doesn't itself run it, it's all private contract now) and every one of the trash removal companies specifically state in the contract that TVs, large appliances, and large furniture are not part of the contract, ya gotta pay extra and make a special appointment to have such items removed.....

[kf4rca]

Wow, that's pretty tough. Our township is not quite so difficult. The county does the trash pickup. But large items like appliances are picked up by Mexican junk recyclers. Tires and paint are not picked up at all. TV's and computers are usually picked up by enthusiasts like us. Yard waste is picked up by a private contractor for the county. (Burning is not allowed.)

[Electronic M]

Out here the trash won't take electronics but will take furniture (within reason) the town doesn't care what's on your lawn... There's been 3 BPCs that have sat outside for a whole year recently. After they've had a few months to fail to find a home I take the HV cable degaussing coil and HV caps for parts. The handful of people who either don't like TVs in their yard or live in apartments dump their sets in farm fields and ditches nearby...If you try and make people pay for something that used to be free they'll get around paying for it in the ways you least desire...
In my case if I have a junk BPC set (I try to avoid anything that new) or loose CRT, I smash the tube and cabinet to bits seal it in one or more cardboard boxes small enough to slip into the regular house hold trash bags that also have household garbage in them and trick the garbage men into taking it that way.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I smash... to bits... small enough to slip into the regular house hold trash...

Yes! I threw away my house's entire old layer of shingles that way, when I replaced its roof about 10 years ago or so. A pile of them to fill 80% of the can each week, covered with the one bag or so of actual trash I typically have, for a couple of months or so, and the big pile was gone.

If you're familiar with the first generation of Sony 26-inch console TV sets (KV-2642R, KV-2644R, KV-2645R if I remember right) that had really short-lived CRTs, someone gave me a white one in about 1992, and after I gave up trying to do anything to help its CRT, I busted the entire set (that had a cracked and yellowed cabinet) into pieces and "threw it in the trash" over a couple of weeks or so.

"Go to the dump?" "That's what we pay those guys in the trucks to do for us."

[etype2]

Did not see the video until today.

The saga of YouTuber, Shank Mods efforts to recover one of the few remaining Sony KX45ED-1 televisions, a truly herculean effort indeed. Thanks to all involved in the rescue. All the images shown in the recovery video of this magnificent set were of video games. Gamers love CRT sets for zero lag response. In this authors opinion, watching animated cartoons bores the hell out of me. This set deserves better.

https://youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk?si=tejmtQHsjLOXecKZ

[init4fun]

TBH I'm kinda surprised Bottom1 (the OP of this thread) hasn't weighed in here regarding the finding of this previously thought to be extinct TV

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by init4fun

TBH I'm kinda surprised Bottom1 (the OP of this thread) hasn't weighed in here regarding the finding of this previously thought to be extinct TV

In the video Shank Mods talks about trolling forums looking for that set only to post finding it soon after...I kinda wonder if bottom1 was one of the troll accounts Shank created or how he contacted Charles Murray (some of his old videokarma posts were shown in the video)...

[ARC Tech-109]

I have the Panasonic CT34WX54 widescreen CRT set and know what it weighs so I can't imagine what that overgrown Trinitron would be. I caught a YouTube video on that monster and can't even fathom moving it without a forklift.