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Especially with the flat-screened Trinitron CRTs, the screen face itself was by far the heaviest part due to all the reinforcing glass. They were ridiculously heavy and front-heavy.

So you had the TV face you, and you bellied up to the screen. Then you put your arms over the top and down each side. The trick was to get the top corners poking out from under your armpits so the TV couldn’t turtle over backwards. Then you grabbed the bottom on either end - towards the rear, but not along the rear - and lifted. Rocking the TV side to side was likely needed to get your fingers under it. What also helped is if the TV was up on something and could be leaned towards you.

Provided your arms were long enough - and I am only 189cm tall, with normally-proportioned arms - this was doable clear up to a 34″ Trinitron. The only models I couldn’t do this on were the 36″ one and that strange 16:9 aspect ratio one that was released especially for viewing widescreen movies.

Back in the days of my apprenticeship (Ausbildung) the company still had this whole storage of old CRT TVs. At some point the other apprentice and me had to get rid of all of them. This meant each of us grabbing one, carry it down 3 floors, load them onto the company's VW T bus and unload at the recycling center.

No fun, one was so big and heavy I tripped and couldn't get it off my myself. In hindsight I dont't think this was within safety regulations, haha.

Same today

Relatable. I literally have a bad back because of trying to solo move an old TV in the 90s

I had a 55 inch TV that I bought in 2005 right before flat screens became common. Thing was so heavy it was on wheels.

When it finally died, I used it as a TV stand for my TV.

Nowadays if you've got a fancy one you've gotta do do your best not to accidentally tear it in half

I have an uncle who had one of those massive, old CRT tvs. Easily weighed several hundred pounds. The tv was free to anyone who would carry it out of the basement and out of house. Took four people to move that tv out.

and that is why my lower back is crab meat

Dimitar Savatinov!

The good ones had built-in handles.

It depends, also an current TV can have ~50 kg https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/us/televisions/beovision-harmony

Those Sony WEGAs were bananas. Mine weighed 99lbs. I remember.

*what it was like moving a TV from one room to another in the 90s.

I know I'm being that guy, but meme grammar is often pretty abysmal.

Shit. I had a Zenith Space Command up into 2004 or so. It started smoking so we decided it was time to replace it.

Google that shit. It almost killed my friend helping move it.

I had one until about 10 years ago. I was moving and planning to take it with me, but I dropped it on the way to the truck. So it went in the dumpster.

there's still two left over in our household. while one is really heavy but manageable, the other one hasn't been moved in years. probably for the best.

And now I'm having PTSD Flashbacks of moving that fucker upstairs

This reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where they get a guy they know a massive TV as an engagement present but he breaks up before they get to see it in action

We had a skateboard we used to move that heavy sonofabitch around. Lan parties were different.

My 65" is it heavy too.

Gotta lift those with the screen to your body my man. This gives you a slightly greater chance of surviving stepping on the cord as you waddle it.

There was never a good way to grab the fucking thing.

I also had thr same issue with a flat screen 55inch. I moved out and I had the ask the old guy doing the inspection to help me get it in the car haha.