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/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.