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The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300


Sony's big 45-inch tube came with an even bigger price tag in 1990.

It was a conventional CRT that worked with over the air signals, but like many larger TVs of the era, it used a technology called IDTV to enhance the picture quality. The “ID” stood for “improved definition.” IDTV sets had a buffer so they would store successive frames and interpolate them rather than interlacing them the way a conventional CRT TV worked. He invests in real estate on the side and his hobbies include O gauge trains, baseball cards, and retro computers and video games.

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