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- From: mce5921@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Martin Emde)
- Subject: Re: Sort of a Joke - sad though...
- Message-ID: <C0IEow.326@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Organization: Boeing
- References: <1993Jan6.152948.11943@phx.mcd.mot.com> <1if650INNt9a@hp-col.col.hp.com> <1if757INNjlf@transfer.stratus.com>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:29:19 GMT
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- In article <1if757INNjlf@transfer.stratus.com> det@phlan.sw.stratus.com (David Toland) writes:
- >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.
- >
- Can anyone out there be more specific as to how those games work
- that sense screen position? How does it compensate for different
- sized images and varying distances from the TV?
-
- Thanks,
-
- -martin
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- Martin C Emde <mce5921@bcstec.boeing.com> uunet!bcstec!mce5921
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