(1978) Big screen TV and VCR, 1978-style (GE Widescreen 1000 – General Electric Performance Television).
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3,000 lbs. too!
Guaranteed that sucker weighed 100,000 pounds.
Thing is so big you would have to build the house around it.
That’s dead sexy!
The giant wood veneer cabinet housed a much smaller CRT display that employed “a vertical deflection reversing switch to invert and laterally reverse the image, and a three-element lens within a light-proof projection chamber to re-invert, magnify and project the image onto a forward projection type reflective screen.”
In other words, the image from a regular old TV tube was flipped and back-projected onto a transparent screen.
“This’ll be soo cool when we record the Star Wars Holiday Special!!!”
And that salesman was able to provide for a house wife, 2-3 kids, 2 vehicles, and the mortgage on their home all by himself! Amazing…
That looks like the beta max machine my son-in-law’s dad had hooked up in their basement.
Frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t include the complimentary alcohol hutch, like they did in earlier models. After all, what’s better then watching TV and drinking something fancy in an actual *glass*?
I had rich friends but none were this rich.
How much did that thing cost? I think microwaves were, like, $700 around that time.
Impressive though I never liked the image on a rear projector TV.The picture you could get from a Sony Trinitron was gold.We had a large Sears floor model.I understand they might have a RCA picture tube and GE electronics