That sounds perfectly DIY-able to me.
I got an old console tv, gutted it, and fit a cheap 32in in it. Doesn’t have that dome effect but it feels amazing to play n64 and Xbox on.
Would have weighed a ton. Barely any plastic, solid wood through out. Electrical components that weren’t miniaturized yet.
Stuff was HEAVY back then. More than you’d think.
Used the total power of a modern household, but you could FIX it! Dad and I took a few trips to the grocery store to test and buy new tubes. If dad couldn’t hack it, call the repair guy. Imagine it being cheaper to have a man come to your house a few times than to buy a new TV.
…heck, may parents’ first litton microwave took three grown men to move and we barely managed at that…
The console TV in the meme would have needed 2 big ass, grown men to carry it down at most 3 steps, or just level ground floor no more than 75 feet.
Elvis had to be wary of ricochets from shooting at these TVs.
Nothing felt as good as having a gamma-ray gun pointed directly at your face.
Also this shit was heavier than a collapsed sun.
Play records loudly, get drunk and fall head-first into the TV…those were the days!
The heat from the electron gun vaporizes the liquor next to the vacuum tube which gets everyone just a little leveled out
These were from the seventies which means you levelled out with the coke mirror on the TV.
Okay boomer
