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- From: det@phlan.sw.stratus.com (David Toland)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: Sort of a Joke - sad though...
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 18:07:35 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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- In article <1if650INNt9a@hp-col.col.hp.com> cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best) writes:
- [someone else writes, no attribution given]:
- >> If I remember, the Nintendo manual say that you should not connect
- >> the game to projection TVs. Anyone know why?
- >Just a guess, since I know little of Nintendo (and I like
- >it this way) - if they offer a device that senses screen
- >position when you aim it at the TV (like a pistol, or isn't
- >there some sort of shoulder-held bazooka now?), it probably
- >won't (or won't) work properly.
- >
- >To answer what you MIGHT be asking, it won't hurt the TV.
-
- Bzzzt. Sorry, that is incorrect. It *will* harm the TV. Projection TV
- systems are particularly sensitive to CRT "burn", a desensitization of
- the phosphors from prolonged firing. Video games often have fixed layouts
- in high contrast and strong color, so after a few hours of playing your
- favorite game you may find a ghost of it is permanently a part of
- everything you watch on that TV.
-
- By the way, the gun (which reads the "flying spot" of the video trace
- from the screen), should work adequately with projection TV, so that is
- *not* the problem.
-
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