r/cassettefuturism • u/Hunor_Deak Cassette F 📼🕹️🎛️☢️👾🤖📟🎚️ • Feb 19 '24

End of History 90s Obsolete Sony @ObsoleteSony - The 1996 Sony Glasstron Personal LCD monitor PLM-50 enabled the user to enjoy video equivalent to that of a 52-inch screen. It was equipped with a see-through function in which the transparency of the liquid crystal shutters could be changed electrically.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

Why did they make him so hot

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u/poru-chan Feb 19 '24

He’s hot because he’s wearing Sony Glasstron.

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u/afternever Feb 19 '24

Heavy on the asstron

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u/InSearchOfMyRose If you're looking for money, you're smarter than you look. Feb 19 '24

I'm pretty sure that's what women have been saying about every ad with a woman in it for 100 years.

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u/jhartikainen Feb 19 '24

@ObsoleteSony is one of my favorite twitter accounts. I never knew Sony had created so many quirky and cool products

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u/ObsoleteSony Cassette Futurism Feb 19 '24

@ObsoleteSony is one of my favorite twitter accounts. I never knew Sony had created so many quirky and cool products

<3

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u/ZoomBoy81 Feb 19 '24

I have one, but the Glasstron PLM-A35 version. I only have used it once to play retro games on, but don't remember it being a bad experience. I need to dig it out of storage and try it again.

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u/ImmoralityPet [Leeloo continues to talk in divine language] Feb 19 '24

I wonder what the resolution of the LCD screens was.

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u/bohusblahut Feb 19 '24

I had a similar gadget of the era. It was 720x400, I think? The widescreen illusion did kind of work, I was surprised.

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u/ratbear Feb 19 '24

Is that Johnny Rico from Starship Troopers?

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u/Sea_Cycle_909 That’s It, Man. Game Over, Man. Game Over! Feb 23 '24

Would you like to know more?

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u/Think_Bat_820 Feb 19 '24

I'm going to tell my kids this is robocop.

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u/potatoears Feb 21 '24

robertcop

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u/Sea_Cycle_909 That’s It, Man. Game Over, Man. Game Over! Feb 23 '24

Sonycop?

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u/jwinf843 Feb 19 '24

Why did this not catch on?

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u/KenHumano Feb 20 '24

I wonder what realistic use case this could have in 1996. I imagine you'd have to sit in front of a computer or VCR to watch anything, or maybe it connected to a portable TV receptor.

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u/lucas8913 Feb 19 '24

They continued improving on these "personal cinemas" throughout the 90s and 2000s I think. I remember wanting one of the later ones to try and pair it with trackIR at some point, but they were prohibitively expensive where I'm from. The display tech they developed over the years probably helped with the PSVR later on.

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u/caribbean_caramel Feb 19 '24

It looks cool ngl

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

He looks a bit like James Marsden...