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- Newsgroups: rec.video
- From: hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer)
- Subject: geometric distortion in SONY TVs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.004742.7266@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- Date: 28 Jan 93 05:47:42 GMT
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- > By the way, if you can markedly improve a 27" XBR's geometric
- > (pincushion) distortion, while preserving horizontal and vertical
- > linearity and convergence, Sony would probably like to hear from
- > you -- assuming that they'll admit that there's a problem. There
- > have been many complaints in rec.video from folks with 27" (and
- > larger) XBR's and EXR's who have tried -- repeatedly and
- > unsuccessfully -- to get Sony to fix this aspect of their sets.
- >
- > (And btw, Sony fans, I've seen Zenith 27" sets without this problem
- > -- so it's >OT inherent in the screen size.)
-
- So, why do SONY TVs in particular suffer from this problem? Could
- it be due to the shape of the picture tube? SONYs are cut from a
- cylinder rather than a sphere.
-
- Also, how severe is this problem in the new XBR^2 sets?
-