The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

Re:The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 by eduction on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:11AM (#46354727)

> In Japan, it sold for 2.6 million yen, but in the United States, it retailed for $40,000, a significant markup. To be fair, shipping them across the Atlantic and then throughout the United States must have been expensive.

If they were going all the long way around to the Atlantic that would indeed explain the markup. Not sure why they would though.

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Re:The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:01PM (#46361945)

Also ...

> And news articles in 1990 said Sony dealers would not allow any bickering. [...] no discounts.

... that's probably "dickering", and an amusing typo. ("Hey, you can't squabble here!")

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