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.

The metaphorically real hole

I can’t get over the unbitten Apple logo

Poor franky-poo :(

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.

I don’t believe so, I think I’ve “dug up” one of these before. It looks like a samsung h034m30