Did I really pay this for a TV

DXP55 · 19 Dec 2015 at 15:21

Just looking through my photos and came across receipt for my 46" Rear projection Toshiba TV dated August 2002

It took 4 people to lift it and sold it on for about £80 one Xmas

Then bought a 52" LG rear projection that was almost as slim as Plasma and could lift it myself

chaparral · 19 Dec 2015 at 15:24

I payed £1500 for my Flat screen Toshiba 32" widescreen CRT...
can't remember what year it was...

And then they released there beautiful picture frame crt's the following year.. :mad:

ADT · 19 Dec 2015 at 15:38

This is why I never buy the latest tv's

Amp34 · 19 Dec 2015 at 17:43

We paid £3k for our first plasma (and that was in a sale) at about the same time (give or take a couple of years). TVs are so cheap now, except larger OLEDs.

spud959 · 19 Dec 2015 at 18:34

I paid £1200 in 2003 (£1700 in today's money )for a Toshiba picture frame CRT TV. (32zp18q)

It has 5.1 sound and 100hz refresh rate. Weighed over 50kg +the stand which nearly killed me lifting it out of my Calibra.

I set it up using a little calibration thing which had coloured filters and stuff in it and quite honestly when I look at the latest TV's now think the picture is still much better on it. As I'm from the era of not throwing things away until they permanently break I'm still watching it now. It still takes up most of the front room as it's as deep as it is wide but I just can't get myself to bin it.

When the room is decorated next year it will be replaced with a crap modern TV which are great to look at but not to watch. Still amazes me that we seem to be going backward in quality for the sake of technology but don't get me going on that.

VincentHanna · 19 Dec 2015 at 19:29

I paid 3k for a 50" HD Panasonic Plasma (1366x768) in 2005!

Still got it sitting in the spare room, will probably end up taking it to the tip as its pretty much worthless!

Rroff · 19 Dec 2015 at 19:31

I paid ridiculous money for an early true 1080p projector... thankfully I saw sense and went back to my 720p one until a more appropriate time - would have been a massive waste of money in hindsight.

robfosters · 19 Dec 2015 at 19:35

In 2006 I paid £1200 for a 37 inch Panasonic 1080i 1024X720 plasma. I thought it was the dogs danglies. It's still serving us well downstairs. Got to be nearing the end of its life span now though. It's nigh on 10 years old.

pdw8 · 19 Dec 2015 at 20:12

Paid £1400 in 2009 for a Pioneer 50" plasma, that was ex-demo from a local specialist audio shop. Still using it now as main screen in lounge.

Grimley · 19 Dec 2015 at 21:14

chaparral said:
I payed £1500 for my Flat screen Toshiba 32" widescreen CRT...
can't remember what year it was...

And then they released there beautiful picture frame crt's the following year..

late 90's I'd say. They made the Largest 4:3 CRT telly on the market too at a whopping 37" (Circa 1998). Almost as deep as it was wide & weighed a ton. It was probably that telly that done my back in as I sold and installed fair few of those.

mid_gen · 19 Dec 2015 at 21:23

2500 GBP for a 30" LCD in 2003

Still going strong though!

insane200 · 19 Dec 2015 at 23:14

And people still moan that a 32'' tv at £300 is expensive, I remember when Panasonic first launched LCD screens a 22'' analogue one was £2200 and an 19'' was about £1600.

wnb · 20 Dec 2015 at 00:07

I said goodbye to my Pioneer pdp 436de two month which cost me £2300 about 10 years ago. Damn good tv, I now have a sony projector and am currently watching a sony lcd which is about 5 years old that I used for the kids playstation. I'm thinking about getting a Panasonic Viera TX-55CX802B to replace the sony.

sastusbulbas · 20 Dec 2015 at 10:52

Yeah, I get pretty shocked at some of the prices I paid for TV's in the past too. I went through two Toshiba rear projection 16.9 TV's and remember thinking they were so small and neat in comparison to the old 50+ " 4.3 Mitsubishi front projection I had in my early years. Their quality was poor though.

Illusion · 20 Dec 2015 at 17:49

I paid about 600 for my first plasma in 2009 and then replaced it with a 750 Sony last year

Steedie · 20 Dec 2015 at 18:14

I remember my dad paying £2k for a massive Panasonic CRT back in the late 90's. He had that for years and years and was convinced that you couldn't beat the picture on it, even when all the latest plasmas were coming out.

Think my nan had it when he eventually replaced it 7-8 years ago and it lived until a couple of years ago when it finally died

SexyGreyFox · 20 Dec 2015 at 18:21

Around 1981 I paid £500 for a 22" stereo CRT and paid £6000 for a house to put that in real money terms.
Around 1989 I paid £1600 for a 32" stereo CRT and my house cost £14,000.

Steedie · 20 Dec 2015 at 18:22

DXP55 · 20 Dec 2015 at 20:18

That Toshiba was two thirds of the mortgage I had at the time --

Demon · 20 Dec 2015 at 22:57

I had a 46WH08B then a 51WH36B!!!!

I did work for Toshiba, so bought the 51" as a pre-production unit that ended up needed some serious tweaking!!! (I did a thread on AVForums about settings electrical/mechanical focus)..

Awesome TV for the time, but blimey, have things changed in just 12 years!!! I've been through the whole RPTV -> Plasma -> LCD -> Projector and all I can say is that bigger is always better