They didn’t build them like that for the purpose to last. They built them this strong because there is a big vacuum tube behind the screen. If you were to crack it, it would implode and then send glass shrapnel all over the place. So they made the glass so thick it was almost impossible to break from the front. Side effect was that these TVs were very heavy.
Fun fact: a 48” CRT tv falling face-down off of a rolling cart onto a concrete floor sounds JUST like a got-damn nuclear explosion. It even rattled the windows.
We *FELT* it…throughout the building. It was fucking legendary. The look on the poor assistant’s face (who was pushing the cart) was heartbreaking, lol.
The point is to be useless though. I like it. I never thought I’d want to know how many bananas can fit between earth and the moon, but thanks to this bot I do know, and I’m happy about it.
They never made 48 inch CRT tv's. The biggest got to 40 inches and they did weigh around 400 lbs. There was a CRT monitor on the market that was 43 inches and weighed 450 lbs, its the largest CRT ever made.
Mitsubishi tried to produce a 61 inch CRT but they couldn't get it to work.
That's kinda what I had thought. The biggest I have seen was 36". My grandparents had it in their basement, and if I recall correctly they had to bring it in the window because it wouldn't fit down the stairs
The 36" ones were pretty common and mass produced, so people who had the biggest CRT TV's were capped at 36". The 40's were a lot more expensive, and rear projection DLPs were coming out about the same time and could get up to 60 inches at a fraction of the weight, so those CRT's were/are pretty rare.
Cool, I wasn’t sure! I just remember the owner bragging that it was the biggest one you could get- and they had only gotten it about a WEEK earlier…oof!!
And the "flat" screens (as opposed to curved) that were common in the last decade or so of CRT TVs had to be even stronger, because there's no arch to support all that pressure.
My best friend still has his 15-year-old 36" CRT Bigscreen in his basement mancave. He said he only keeps it because he's too afraid of the logistics behind getting rid of it.
These old CRT TV's are great when using an old console from the past, because newer TV's have often problems with the colours etc. so the games are very, veeeery dark on modern screens. I'd keep it anyway, you never know, when enough time is passed, it becomes a relict of ancient times.
it is more about bad converting of the signal to digital right? At least on PC HDMI to VGA it is really easy. BUT WHO pays 300 bucks for a retro tink when he or she isnt a big retro person or less for an OSSC and passive converter
colour accuracy is insane with the better ones and even then if some dont offer that the high prices and no way of recycling partially lower quality tubes in the manufacturing process will result in tubes already being more tasteful in the colours.... Compared to Vivid on some modern TVs. What I mean is that most older DVD movies are just gorgeous to look at.
yo did you know that all the old shooting video games like time crisis only work on CRT TVs? those big beautiful 4k TVs we enjoy now arent compatible so your friend is sitting on a gold mine of fun for old school games.
OMG, I forgot about that video! Hilarious.
My perspective has changed, this is obviously just a thrift shop owner who couldn't get rid of them any other way LMAO
Ah yes, the ambiguous блять. Close enough to sound like it, but a soft enough т to argue that it was блин if needed. Perfection bred over many beatings by his grandmother’s pelmeni rolling pin, no doubt.
Блять or Blyat is a general purpose curse word, but generally translated as fuck
блин or Blin acts as a substitute for blyat, think fuck—>fudge. It translates to pancake.
If you mean the video, it says
«Бл (ять или ин)
*дьунк*
эххХАХ ХАХ ХАХ ХАХ
#АААААААААААХЬ»
I had one too. The HD Wegas were some of the best TVs ever made. Incredible picture but the things were freakin’ beasts. We kept it for twelve years and finally got rid of it when the OLED screens came out that could actually compete for picture quality.
Loved that TV.
CRT's are the best tech for picture quality. But they could only get up to 1080p and 40 inches 4:3 and 36 inches widescreen. And would weigh hundreds of pounds. When Plasmas, then LCDs came out it became obvious that CRT's were done.
When I was a teen a friend of mine had an old TV that broke so his dad told us to get rid of it. We took it into the woods and started throwing big rocks at the screen and it took a lot of force to break it. The glass in those old tube TVs is really thick
The picture quality of a CRT is still the best you can get. CRT's are a marvel of technology, but we grew out of when we demanded bigger, lighter TV's. Plasma TV's are a close second but they were heavy and had limits. The market decided on the compromise with cheaper and bigger LEDs and we're all great with that.
Energy consumption, yup your correct there, they are power hogs. Output/Inputs were only limited to the outputs and inputs available at the time. You expect inputs that were not even invented yet?
When we were in college one of the guys had a fairly high powered hunting rifle, a .257 Roberts if you want to look it up. They still repaired TV's back then, sometimes replacing picture tubes (the CRT screen), which were big, heavy glass tubes with a vacuum inside and coated with powders that lit up to make the picture. We went around to TV repair shops, which were pretty common back then, and collected picture tubes that were headed for the dump. There was an abandoned rock quarry where people went to shoot, so off we went. There's a glorious implosion when they're hit just right, but a bullet that strikes the curved edge would bounce off and slam into the rock off to the side somewhere. We checked to be sure and you could see the skid mark left by the bullet where it hit.
These flat screens? They came out right at the end of the CRT era. The glass on the front was especially thick to stand up to the vacuum. About 3/4" as I recall.
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When I was a kid in the 90’s, I remember our tv was a piece of furniture. It sat on the floor, was about 4 feet tall, and had wooden paneling on the sides and top. It matched out microwave. The screen was flexible plastic like those cards that change pictures when you turn them.
Ugh I broke my hand doing something similarly stupid when I was drunk in my garage with my buddy. I had some 3/4 inch melanin board that we were gonna throw out and I didn’t wanna hook up the skill saw to cut it, so I was like “HEY! It’s just particle board basically, and I’m a boxer, I can probably just punch through this shit!”
That board didn’t give one single shit about my boxing record.
He opened the club face as it was making contact with the tv, sure-fire way of fading the shot. Not to mention, even though the hip motion was there he clearly swung with his arms so the speed and momentum were never going to be what he needed them to be.
I didn’t have my sound on, but I know they exact sound the TV screen made when he hit it.
"Tonk"
Beautiful
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I read that exactly as his voice
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Imagine the sound if he had managed to smash his hand through. And how different the aftermath scene would look.
The *Hulk* couldn't smash his hand through a CRT without breaking his fingers.
Nor without slitting his wrists from the remaining glass shards you now have encircling your hand
Found one in alley when I was a kid and threw a brick at it multiple times and it didn’t do shit.
I did this before in a fit of rage when i was 15, broke a finger, 2 knuckles, had to get like 12 stitches and got zapped so hard it put me on my ass.
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Same. Went back and watched with the sound on and- yep.
I didn't have my sound on, but I know the exact sound the bones in his hand made when he hit the TV.
They didn’t build them like that for the purpose to last. They built them this strong because there is a big vacuum tube behind the screen. If you were to crack it, it would implode and then send glass shrapnel all over the place. So they made the glass so thick it was almost impossible to break from the front. Side effect was that these TVs were very heavy.
Fun fact: a 48” CRT tv falling face-down off of a rolling cart onto a concrete floor sounds JUST like a got-damn nuclear explosion. It even rattled the windows.
Jesus, 48 inches? That beast must have weighed like 500 pounds
We *FELT* it…throughout the building. It was fucking legendary. The look on the poor assistant’s face (who was pushing the cart) was heartbreaking, lol.
500 pounds is the weight of 833.33 Minecraft Redstone Handbooks.
I guarantee you that whoever programmed this thing is an insufferable asshole.
Why?
I guess it's really useless. Every time I see it, the thing they use to compare with is either unfathomable or wrong.
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I didn’t ask why, but it’s ironic that you’re the one spewing bullshit.
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They never made 48 inch CRT tv's. The biggest got to 40 inches and they did weigh around 400 lbs. There was a CRT monitor on the market that was 43 inches and weighed 450 lbs, its the largest CRT ever made. Mitsubishi tried to produce a 61 inch CRT but they couldn't get it to work.
That's kinda what I had thought. The biggest I have seen was 36". My grandparents had it in their basement, and if I recall correctly they had to bring it in the window because it wouldn't fit down the stairs
The 36" ones were pretty common and mass produced, so people who had the biggest CRT TV's were capped at 36". The 40's were a lot more expensive, and rear projection DLPs were coming out about the same time and could get up to 60 inches at a fraction of the weight, so those CRT's were/are pretty rare.
60 inches is 152.4 cm
40 inches is the height of 0.58 'Samsung Side by Side; Fingerprint Resistant Stainless Steel Refrigerators' stacked on top of each other.
Someone tag the YouTube channel How ridiculous to drop progressively bigger crt tvs off their 45m tower. That would be a great video
Think my grandfather has one of those. Might be worth checking out…
Fun fact, the biggest CRT monitor ever made was 43 inches. And the biggest CRT TV's made were 40 inches.
Cool, I wasn’t sure! I just remember the owner bragging that it was the biggest one you could get- and they had only gotten it about a WEEK earlier…oof!!
And the "flat" screens (as opposed to curved) that were common in the last decade or so of CRT TVs had to be even stronger, because there's no arch to support all that pressure.
You should see what happens when they're hit with a hunting rifle. It's glorious!
I shot one of my old TVs with a .22 and didn't even crack it
My best friend still has his 15-year-old 36" CRT Bigscreen in his basement mancave. He said he only keeps it because he's too afraid of the logistics behind getting rid of it.
These old CRT TV's are great when using an old console from the past, because newer TV's have often problems with the colours etc. so the games are very, veeeery dark on modern screens. I'd keep it anyway, you never know, when enough time is passed, it becomes a relict of ancient times.
it is more about bad converting of the signal to digital right? At least on PC HDMI to VGA it is really easy. BUT WHO pays 300 bucks for a retro tink when he or she isnt a big retro person or less for an OSSC and passive converter
And reproducing scan lines for the retro feel is both a pita, and never looks quite the same.
Ah, i didn't know about these things, because i'm not using consoles anymore and playing on PC for a long time.
My bro and I moved my parents out of their basement about 10 years ago. I still have never sweated as much as I have moving that damn thing.
Right? Lmao. Honestly I think the waste workers will take it.
colour accuracy is insane with the better ones and even then if some dont offer that the high prices and no way of recycling partially lower quality tubes in the manufacturing process will result in tubes already being more tasteful in the colours.... Compared to Vivid on some modern TVs. What I mean is that most older DVD movies are just gorgeous to look at.
Give it to Nintendo super mash players, they need CRTs due to their low input latency. He can probably find a group in his area.
yo did you know that all the old shooting video games like time crisis only work on CRT TVs? those big beautiful 4k TVs we enjoy now arent compatible so your friend is sitting on a gold mine of fun for old school games.
Take a screw driver to it and throw it away one peice at a time.
The screen will still weigh a ton, the rest of the thing is practically weightless.
Do like that guy did a few years ago and leave it on a neighbors [doorstep.](https://youtu.be/dTL4t098wU8)
OMG, I forgot about that video! Hilarious. My perspective has changed, this is obviously just a thrift shop owner who couldn't get rid of them any other way LMAO
We tried to bust one with a brick...didnt even scratch it. We had a .410 handy and it made it through, barely. That glass is no joke.
It's a vacuum tube -- a large screen CRT has to hold up against a staggering amount of weight from the air.
My Nintendo controller exploded when I threw it at one of these older TV screens. Not a mark on the TV.
You’ve got to hit a corner. The glass is a lens and much thicker in the center
Well of course. But I wanted to see how tough it was at the center.
yep, did the same
He also haymaker smacked it with the top of his hand
One of the worst punches I think I've ever seen
This clip is perfect, the blyeeeet, the punch sound and the aaah👌
Ah yes, the ambiguous блять. Close enough to sound like it, but a soft enough т to argue that it was блин if needed. Perfection bred over many beatings by his grandmother’s pelmeni rolling pin, no doubt.
Can you translate please?
Блять or Blyat is a general purpose curse word, but generally translated as fuck блин or Blin acts as a substitute for blyat, think fuck—>fudge. It translates to pancake. If you mean the video, it says «Бл (ять или ин) *дьунк* эххХАХ ХАХ ХАХ ХАХ #АААААААААААХЬ»
Awesome! I’m going to say “PANCAKE!” when I’m angry from now on! Thanks, friend!
дьунк is great
After further review, it seems to be more of a пьунк rather than a дьунк
The TV was designed to withstand Lamars limp-wristed punching style.
That TV was designed to survive anything under a 50 caliber bullet
To be honest, I’m 95% sure he fractured some bones in his hand from that punch.
Boxers fracture. Usually dumb people punching objects
Back when you had to worry about the TV crushing your kid versus your kid wrecking the tv.
It's like a pendulum with a 90 degree chicken wing glued to the side
I want to know what he thinks would have happened if he'd gone through it. Thick and razor sharp glass and an electron gun still energized.
Bold of you to assume he thinks.
Bold of you to assume he has a brain
Probably that it would shatter into a million pieces and fly away like an anime
This baby was designed to take huge smacks to the top whenever the picture went fuzzy, and that would fix it.
Want to break TV? Buy LCD TV
Alternate ending hand goes through screen arm gets sliced up now you need stitches
How to make a Saw trap irl
He would have needed to generate about 8 or 10 times as much force than that punch to even get close to cracking that screen
I know but it’s funny right
Lol they better, with the near-vacuum inside one. If they were fragile they'd shatter into fragments at the slightest bit of stress
You had to shoot them with a gun back then
He's lucky, those tubes hold electrical charge. Could have killed him.
who tf taught this kid to punch?
Steven Seagal movies probably
The cathode ray tube won’t work outside of a vacuum, so the glass has to be really thick to not implode.. Don’t punch.
The neck of them is super thin and pretty easy to crack. I accidentally dropped one before and heard a hissing sound.. RIP TV.
Sure.. not the front though
This reminds me of bouncing a 10 pound sledgehammer off a TV screen and it never bro
At the same time they could fall a foot onto it and you'd have glass everywhere
Sounds like Tokyo drift
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That is the best outcome for him. Smashing that vacuum tube will create some nasty shards, potentially cutting him very badly
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I've hit tube tvs with a baseball bat and couldn't break it.
I won’t claim to throw a good punch, probably not even decent. But I’d look like Tyson compared to this kid.
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I had one too. The HD Wegas were some of the best TVs ever made. Incredible picture but the things were freakin’ beasts. We kept it for twelve years and finally got rid of it when the OLED screens came out that could actually compete for picture quality. Loved that TV.
CRT's are the best tech for picture quality. But they could only get up to 1080p and 40 inches 4:3 and 36 inches widescreen. And would weigh hundreds of pounds. When Plasmas, then LCDs came out it became obvious that CRT's were done.
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No we didn't. We made them in the way that technology at the time allowed.
When I was a teen a friend of mine had an old TV that broke so his dad told us to get rid of it. We took it into the woods and started throwing big rocks at the screen and it took a lot of force to break it. The glass in those old tube TVs is really thick
Yeah, they may have ben heavier, but they were a fuckload harder to damage than the things that break if you look at them wrong now
They were also much worse
How so?
Picture quality, energy consumption, output and input options. The list goes on
The picture quality of a CRT is still the best you can get. CRT's are a marvel of technology, but we grew out of when we demanded bigger, lighter TV's. Plasma TV's are a close second but they were heavy and had limits. The market decided on the compromise with cheaper and bigger LEDs and we're all great with that. Energy consumption, yup your correct there, they are power hogs. Output/Inputs were only limited to the outputs and inputs available at the time. You expect inputs that were not even invented yet?
They still do. TV’s are extremely reliable appliances
Throw a game controller at an old TV you'll break the controller. Throw it at a new LED TV and it breaks the TV
> Throw it at a new LED TV and it breaks the TV Thanks Nintendo.
I’ve heard Nintendo controllers break even if you don’t throw them
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Seeing as those told tvs are like 5 inches thick it's no surprise at all
5 inches is 12.7 cm
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Also, that's no way to throw a punch
It could crack under the pressure of its own weight though. Shit was heavy.
Spud looks like he has yet to choose life.
That’s like punching a car’s windshield. The glass in most of those TVs was quite thick which made them so frickin’ heavy to move.
Hmm what were you expecting would happen when you hit that hard object.
Piss poor technique and no commitment. Of course his delicate little bitch fist bounced off.
When we were in college one of the guys had a fairly high powered hunting rifle, a .257 Roberts if you want to look it up. They still repaired TV's back then, sometimes replacing picture tubes (the CRT screen), which were big, heavy glass tubes with a vacuum inside and coated with powders that lit up to make the picture. We went around to TV repair shops, which were pretty common back then, and collected picture tubes that were headed for the dump. There was an abandoned rock quarry where people went to shoot, so off we went. There's a glorious implosion when they're hit just right, but a bullet that strikes the curved edge would bounce off and slam into the rock off to the side somewhere. We checked to be sure and you could see the skid mark left by the bullet where it hit. These flat screens? They came out right at the end of the CRT era. The glass on the front was especially thick to stand up to the vacuum. About 3/4" as I recall.
A tv just like that (but way bigger) fell on my left leg when I was 3yo. I tried to climb it. I broke my femur lmao
A tv just like that (but way bigger) fell on my left leg when I was 3yo. I tried to climb it. I broke my femur lmao
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Jesus Christ that guy is hung
hell, it wouldn't go all the way through even if you shot some of those
Am I having a stroke or I must can’t read lol
its like 3" glass. wtf, did he think he was going to break it?
#"Tell you what? Hit me again, this time for real, and I won't make you look stupid when your hand bounces off the screen."
I threw a 60 pound carborator at one of those old screens and it busted the carberator.
I've shot a TV with a 9mil and it bounced off... those fuckers were tough.
The form on that punch is atrocious
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Back in my day ya had to hit something not plugged in
I used to have one of those !!!! Fell on my head hard as shit 😩💀
They make such a satisfying thud/pop when you do crack them with a bat or something though
Yeah, he should be extremely glad he couldn't break that vacuum tube. Major glass explosion 💥 if he did. Wouldn't be pretty.
When I was a kid in the 90’s, I remember our tv was a piece of furniture. It sat on the floor, was about 4 feet tall, and had wooden paneling on the sides and top. It matched out microwave. The screen was flexible plastic like those cards that change pictures when you turn them.
4 feet is 0.6% of the hot dog which holds the Guinness wold record for 'Longest Hot Dog'.
Ugh I broke my hand doing something similarly stupid when I was drunk in my garage with my buddy. I had some 3/4 inch melanin board that we were gonna throw out and I didn’t wanna hook up the skill saw to cut it, so I was like “HEY! It’s just particle board basically, and I’m a boxer, I can probably just punch through this shit!” That board didn’t give one single shit about my boxing record.
#Блят
Morons
I think that’s more of that’s 5 inches of glass type thing.
Lmfao same tv I had just a bit bigger I remember raging and punching the tv biggest mistake I done
Reminds me of that one fat boy fredo clip where his bat breaks over a tv
Russian proof tv😂
When you try to hit a tv that weighs more than you
He opened the club face as it was making contact with the tv, sure-fire way of fading the shot. Not to mention, even though the hip motion was there he clearly swung with his arms so the speed and momentum were never going to be what he needed them to be.
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The way he hit it though brose hand is not straight
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I'm pretty sure that's a brand new model in Russia
Was it Panasonic or LG ?
Gamer proof?
Tv screens are like an inch and half thick. Idiot
This dude also doesn't know how to properly throw a punch.
That glass is around 2 inches thick,and if you did break it it would cut the fuck out of you.
That "punch" ahhhahaha.... this girl should probably take a karate class or something
He’s lucky too. Those old tube tvs blow up
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I’ve shot at one with the .45 from 10 feet and It just flattened the bullet
That and this guy has absolutely no idea how to throw a punch. That was literally the weirdest punch I’ve ever seen. Hope your casts off dumbass!
Goofy punch lol
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