Many People Have Huge Televisions Nowadays,

but back in the day before flat screen LED type televisions, 

Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) televisions ruled the day for the best possible picture, in late 1988 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Sony’s Trinitron brand, the PVM-4300 was launched, an incredibly expensive, made-to-order television, it went on sale in Japan at a retail price of 2,430,000 Japanese yen (about $17,500 by the 1988 exchange rate), and it was heavy, weighing in at over 400 pounds! it was so heavy that it had a special, fork liftable casing, as well as handles that bolt onto the sides of the monitor for improved grip, according to Sony’s installation manual, at least six people were required to lift the TV set safely, when it finally came to the United States, in 1990, the Sony PVM-4300 CRT TV was not only the biggest of its kind, but probably the most expensive one as well, at $40,000 it was not cheap, as you might expect not many were sold, and in the seeds of time the television became a myth, no real-life units were to be found and only a couple of “real-life” photos to go on apart from the vintage promotion material from its launch, people could only imagine what it really looked like,

but then on December 22, 2024, respected gaming console modder Shanks shocked the world with a YouTube video featuring a functional Sony PVM-4300, so how did this happen? Along with friends he managed to track down one of the units in the only two real-life photos to the second floor of a soba noodle shop in Osaka and had it shipped to the United States to be cleaned and repaired,

in truth no one really knows how many Sony PVM-4300 TVs were ever made, so it looks like the Shanks’ PVM-4300 may be the only one left in the world, I guess that makes it priceless!