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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (8 children)
[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

If you want to prevent your TV from getting stolen just get a Trinitron, it's heavy as fuck and old enough where no thief would take thier time to steal it. Mine's 109lbs

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I genuinely had to leave a Sony Wega behind when I last moved. It was my landlord's and I would have bought it off of him, but it was just not possible to move it. It was there when I moved in, it stayed there when I moved out. You could make an olive orbit around that gravity well.

[–] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for leading me down this rabbit hole of looking up Wega, which was a German manufacturer of hifi equipment bought by Sony. They apparently made tapedecks for the Sony Elcaset format, which became an even deeper rabbit hole... TIL!

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Oooh, so that's what happened to aiwa."

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Is THAT what happened to Aiwa? I had never made the connection.

I didn't even know Wega was in reference to a company they bought. I always thought it referred to their flatscreen trinitons and nothing else.

That thing struggled to keep geometry, but come on, it was a humongous widescreen CRT with stereo speakers that could replicate the Tunguska crater. You gotta love it.

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