@BethanyBlack I spent thousands on a 4x3 HD CRT TV around that time which displayed HD content letterboxed across the center; along with a DTV decoder box. The engineers at the local PBS station used to come down to my house a few blocks away to as a test bed for their digital transition.
A year later I had my first widescreen CRT HDTV and it was so futuristic but nearly 3 feet deep. Today, I have an OLED screen a fraction of an inch thick.