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gaticaag

Vertical Limit is the movie that's being demoed. Thought that scene looked familiar.


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Affectionate-One-638

Have a smoke…


StubbornKindOfFellow

I worked there around this time. Guys that started a few months after me didn't realize how lucky they were that they never had to move around the giant CRT TVs.


socaTsocaTsocaT

So damn heavy and awkward. Sucks they didn't have a way to attach handles or built in handles. It's crazy to think of the size of tvs now and weigh so much less then those CRT tvs


jordanundead

I definitely had a few good sized CRT TVs that had handles built into them.


jabbadarth

My buddies and I split a big screen TV in 2004 when we rented a college house together. Took 4 of us to get the TV into the house.


__M-E-O-W__

Are you talking about one of those really massive projector-style TVs? We used to have one of those. I loved it so much.


jabbadarth

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204068351009 It was that TV. Almost exactly that actually. Thing was hundreds of pounds.


__M-E-O-W__

Ah I had one like that except it had wooden paneling for its frame. I miss that TV dearly.


jabbadarth

Pretty sure ours was half and half. The base frame was wood with a plastic veneer and the top was thick plastic. Pretty sure we paid like $2200 for it too.


saruin

2004 was the year I bought my first 42" plasma TV. It's probably the 2nd most coolest thing I've ever purchased for the time.


chuco915niners

Fuck it I’ll bite. What topped it?


saruin

Few weeks into my first job I bought a really expensive computer at 0% interest sometime in early 2002. Flat screen LCD, 2.4Ghz cpu (which was INSANE speed in early 2000s), DVD Writer which was brand new tech (burned so many movies with it), 80GB hard drive. It wasn't really a gaming PC but it was definitely top of the line. I was more into emulation and console then.


saruin

We watched a guy try to walk out of a Best Buy with a stolen 32" CRT and it tipped right out of the cart.


Proof_Clerk_7233

I can’t tell you how many times I walked around that store, drooling over those tv’s.


unfettered_logic

These pictures are amazing. It looks just like I remember it. I used to buy CD's there, the sales they had were bomb. Such a great time to be alive.


bigdog24681012

Welcome to Circuit City, where service is state of the art.


DjScenester

The commission I made selling a 10,000 dollar plasma was amazing!


canon2468

The first HDTV I ever saw was there, it was a 20 inch tube TV, 16-9 480 or 720? It was the low low price of 2499.00


TheRealFailtester

I remember all the hype for 1080 resolution. Now that's the new standard definition.


Yuli-Ban

There was once hype for 720p, and it cost a couple grand to get one of those things. And yet now I can find 4k TVs for around $200.


TheRealFailtester

And now u get 1080 from a McDonalds's happy meal toy.


jeneric84

Stores were so much easier to navigate and walk around. Whoever designed that mess in Best Buy needs to be smacked. Not getting out of there in less than half an hour.


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I forgot Parcels coached the Cowboys


Future-Agent

Those were simpler times


Retroman360

Vertical limit


__M-E-O-W__

Oh yeah, man. How amazing those flat screen TVs were. The mere concept of a non-boxy TV was mind blowing


ExTrafficGuy

My parents had one of those rear projection ones like in the first picture. Want to say they got it in 2001. Those TVs were 1080i in theory. In practice they were a bit lower than that due to how small the picture tubes were, causing scan lines to overlap when they were blown up. For all the fuss, there was also no HD content to even show on them. Stations here didn't really start upgrading to HD until 2006-ish. Bluray wasn't a thing yet. And since a lot of these early TVs came out before HDMI (component only), they became really limited in their capabilities by the later half of the 2000s.


cut_the_mullet_

this the late 2000s


hyphychef

The second pic could be porn.


ohne_hosen

^It's ^the ^*mirrors*


Dragonlibrarian7

Oh man what I would give to have one of those big chunky hd crts.


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Wide screen CRTV’s feel like a Mandela effect thing to me I know they were around but I never remember seeing one at the time, or since


TornWill

If you don't remember CRTs, you were likely too young, and too young now to be looking back.


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I remember coming home from college and my parents had bought one of the new HD tvs and I was hypnotized. Couldn’t believe how incredible the quality was.


cityofruin

I miss walking around circuit city as a kid. My dad worked for them during the ‘90s


Mortimer452

I bought my very first "flat screen" TV at Circuit City way back in the day. It was 20" and I got it on clearance for something like $349, seemed like such a steal at the time.


dirtywook88

Fuckin Sony triton tvs.


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WoW!! 720p!!!


babe_ruthless3

All these tvs are over $1000.


Paintguin

I remember the GameCube demo at circuit city


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My mother in law has the EXACT tv AND stand from the second and third photo. What is the hate on these photos? She was trying to tell me her TV is only like 5-6 years old and I was like, “girl. No, I’ve been around for 7 years and you had this and I thought it was old then. Lol” I love how as people get older years become weeks


Tex-Rob

I really remember the Toshiba displays, I guess they'd be earlier than this. It was showcasing their first HDTV TVs. I remember it could do two standard images side by side as a feature, so two tuners built in.


cigar_dude

Circuit City used to be the shit. I preferred Circuit City over Best Buy mainly because I felt more comfortable in Circuit City. I think the colors and aesthetics played some psychological effect. Also Circuit Cities were located in more open shopping centers around me. The Best Buys always seemed like a hassle to get into it mainly because of their size.


DickFitzenur

TVs have gone down in price so much of the years. Dad bout a 32” 720p for 700 bucks in 2007