I'm pretty sure it's the one visible behind the TV. So instead of disposing of the TV through the proper ways, the previous owner just buried it in the back yard and called it a day. Or maybe he needed 0,5 m³ of soil and used the TV to fill in the hole.
Probably also new enough to have a non-point-focusing Fresnel lens. Which is enough to focus sunlight into a pot and heat it up decently fast, but not to make a sharp death-beam to liquify metal. That's the most valuable part of a projection TV nowadays, and although you could get a sizeable trapezoidal mirror and some lenses, plus dichroic glass out of LCD ones, those are not nearly as fun.
I think that by removing the mirror, screen and case, a working one could be made into a half-decent projector but very limited in where it can be placed in the room to focus (about 1 diagonal away from the screen and dead center because of no keystone) plus you'd have to make a fire-resistant electrically safe case for the unshapely thing that blocks any light from the lamp/CRTs but isn't too big as to block your view any more than the bare device already does.
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myster0n@feddit.nl · 73 pts · 227d
So he hasn't tested it?
melimosa@piefed.blahaj.zone · 60 pts · 227d
hOrni@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 227d
I'm pretty sure it's the one visible behind the TV. So instead of disposing of the TV through the proper ways, the previous owner just buried it in the back yard and called it a day. Or maybe he needed 0,5 m³ of soil and used the TV to fill in the hole.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 3 pts · 226d
Current owner desecrated a grave you say
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 8 pts · 227d
The metaphorically real hole
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 227d
Linux should work.
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 34 pts · 227d
Just needs a little dusting!
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 227d
That looks more like a rear protection than a CRT.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 227d
Wade , is that you? Feed frank
7toed@midwest.social · 4 pts · 226d
I can't get over the unbitten Apple logo
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 3 pts · 226d
Poor franky-poo :(
hOrni@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 227d
So this is how they find things for those restoration videos on YouTube.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 227d
It's a projection TV, does not worth the hastle...
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 227d
Probably also new enough to have a non-point-focusing Fresnel lens. Which is enough to focus sunlight into a pot and heat it up decently fast, but not to make a sharp death-beam to liquify metal. That's the most valuable part of a projection TV nowadays, and although you could get a sizeable trapezoidal mirror and some lenses, plus dichroic glass out of LCD ones, those are not nearly as fun.
I think that by removing the mirror, screen and case, a working one could be made into a half-decent projector but very limited in where it can be placed in the room to focus (about 1 diagonal away from the screen and dead center because of no keystone) plus you'd have to make a fire-resistant electrically safe case for the unshapely thing that blocks any light from the lamp/CRTs but isn't too big as to block your view any more than the bare device already does.
Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 227d
I don't believe so, I think I've "dug up" one of these before. It looks like a samsung h034m30
RogueBanana@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 227d
What do you mean you "dug up" one before?
Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 227d
I used to clean out houses, so I would come across a ton of CRTs. Id clean them up and sell them
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 227d
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 226d
Waow that's dirt cheap
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 227d
Dont they have s lot of copper ?
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 226d
Do you have the receipt?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 225d
They should going and see if Trevor Jordache is down there too.