Re: visual distortion on CRT displays
Re: visual distortion on CRT displays
- Subject: Re: visual distortion on CRT displays
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:21:28 -0700
At 12:15 PM -0400 6/23/05, Lauren Helf wrote:
>I would appreciate hearing about the commonality and acceptability of screen distortion on a high-end CRT display. I have now had 3 new monitors of the same brand (LaCie electron22blueIV) that distort an image in similar ways. A perfectly round circle will balloon outward when moved off the center of the screen (turns into an ellipse). It gets progressively worse the further it is from screen center. I have measured the difference in diameters and quantified this as a 5.8% distortion at the extreme. Also, a skewing of square or rectangular shapes is apparent in one corner of the screen. These problems are still existent when I test the monitor in another room, hook it up to another computer, and try another cable. Unhappily, this third monitor has the additional problem of uneven color across the screen. (The right side is preponderantly blue rather than neutral.) These are all critical problems for my work as a photographer and graphic artist and designer. The manufacturer has already refused to simply take back the monitor and refund me my money. It is too late to return it to the store I originally purchased it from. I know that a good number of you out there on this list have been using this monitor (LaCie electron22blueIV). Can anyone suggest a mode of recourse? Thank you.
I know this might sound like a strange question but where, in the world, are you?
It sounds like you are being affected by a magnetic field and if you are moving the monitor around then you will be removing the possibility of a close source so that leaves either a particularly strong field in the Earth near you (are you on bedrock?) or perhaps just the Earth's magnetic field overall. The original 21" Apple display had circuitry that would detect fields and reset the display automatically. All you had to do was turn the screen and it would detect it and reset... I have yet to see that feature in any other display...
I think that you are looking at a very good reason to upgrade to an LCD display. They are not affected by magnetic fields in any way (that I've heard)
Regards,
Steve
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