Re: CRT monitor and TV at war?
"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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| Organization | Universal Networks |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Umm, you get this problem with the TV or with the monitor or both? With the monitor. I can have someone turn the TV on and off and with the door closed (so I can't hear it) tell exactly when it is on and when it is off. > From experience, no. I once, without thinking, placed a magnet on top of my > tv. when i next turned it on, the picture was, unsurprisingly, highly > distorted, but this sorted itself out after a couple of days (much to my > relief). With monitors, the degauss function is your friend in such a > situation :). Yeah, sadly, I can't find a degauss function on this box (it's a CRT iMac). Hopefully I won't need degauss, although it sorta looks like it could use it. > Umm, you could try making your walls thicker or buying a TFT replacement > for one or the other. No, basically. Mmm... well, a plasma TV is still a bit out of reach and I'd hate to throw out a whole computer just because its screen doesn't like the TV being on... I think I'll just move it. :-) > Though if you value your data I'd suggest this is a valuable lesson showing > that you should never place your tower horizontally in line with your CRT > monitor :). Hehehe... very true! -Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <[email protected]> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+67SZK37Cns9gJ0gRApQkAJ9EgkIkpzecAWOAZk1J6q+eXqM/oACdEbzn 6QHNHN+b44pDB3wnaQzcOV0= =A0yN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.