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- From: mjkobb@media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
- Subject: Re: Weird color-distortion problems?
- In-Reply-To: flowerpt@coos.dartmouth.edu's message of 22 Jan 93 05:58:59 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:00:19 GMT
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- In article <C18rAD.2o4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> flowerpt@coos.dartmouth.edu (Bill McGonigle) writes:
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- In article <MJKOBB.93Jan20204203@media-lab.media.mit.edu> mjkobb@media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
- > I was looking at TV's today, in one of those stores where they
- >have about a billion of them on the wall all showing the same thing.
- >One of them (a Sony), was having some color problems. In large,
- >saturated regions of color, there were patches of other bizarre
- >colors. Examples: Yellow and blue had grey-white patches. Reds
- >had bluish patched in it. I've seen this same phenomenon at home,
- >too, when watching some of the cable stations (usually A&E,
- >actually).
-
- I did this to a monitor once with a magnet. PITA to fix it...
-
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- Hi,
-
- No, it wasn't like a magnetized shadow mask or anything
- (difficult, seeing as how it was a projector anyway). It's
- difficult to describe this in print, but it really looked like some
- sort of signal problem. Perhaps some sort of overload condition?
-
- --Mike
-