First there were "FST" (flatter, squarer tube) TVs; many of these had a separate glass plate in front of the tube for cosmetic reasons.
Then everything went to vertically-flat screens, as these preserve the straightness of horizontal and vertical lines.
I have one of the last wave of CRT monitors, which is almost flat; the front of the tube is flat, but you can just see that the inside surface is still slightly curved.
Yeah, in fact I have one. :-)
Cheers! Rich
If you are doing it in software, then you should be able to flip your monitors through the video card settings you are feeding them with. If your feed is not from the PC video card, I doubt that you will flip your TV display any time soon.
So what does the software control? A box with three separate TV out signals from one in? Your video cards?
I would flip it in your video card setting dialog, then rung the software.
There was "vertically flat" then "flat square". It started with computer displays, but large form factor TV makers started doing it too.
Makes for a (more)fun dynamic focus circuit requisite. Relativity anyone?
Not on the Sony tubes that most of the industry used right before the LCD changeover (if they had any brains).
My ViewSonic 19" pure flat is a very nice optically coated perfectly flat screen, and the inside surface is flat all the way out to the edge fringes. I would still use it as it was very nice, except for the consumption rate, and the per kW/Hr rate not being good friends.
The damndest thing about it is that I got it for like $179.00, which was a real nice price. LCDs cost them less to make, but they gouge the piss out of us for them. The 24 to 26 inch variety should be at $200 each right now, but they are twice that.
I shouldn't complain. My first monitor was a ViewSonic 15" at 0.25 mm dot pitch. It was sweet, till it failed less than a year later. The reason I shouldn't complain is because that monitor cost me $550!
Folks these days get so much more for so much less. Nobody should complain about any prices these days.
If you look at it, the $400 i7 motherboard IS worth that price, when one examines all the stuff they put on it!
Video cards could be a bit cheaper, but jeez, even those have a LOT packed onto them compared to the trident 1MB VGA cards we were so hot to get one of.
Wow... electronics is the greatest science ever! Then computers... then pool... then astronomy. :-)
Cool. I didn't know that tech was that old though. An easy decade before i first saw it.
Amazing that there were over 275 pages to that single issue.
Now, they sell you twenty pages of ads and ten pages of actual info.
that looks real easy. eg: video capture hardware + linux + vlc media player + xorg + xrandr
Yeah, JT means flat panel display.
if you do that you'll throw it out of allignment and need to dick with the alignment trimmers to get the colous to converge again.
you may also find that after rotating the yoke the labels on the trimmers no-longer correspond to the effects they have on the colour alignment :)
What about with an inline gun? color stripe instead of dots?
Hahahah... turn the yoke... yeah right.
It probably would have problems with certain monochromatic designs as well. No convergence, but things would still be different, nonetheless.
last time I did that I discovered that the degausing circuit was badly aged, and the colours came out all wrong, and wouldn't go right.
If I'd know how easy iw was to do in software I could have had reasonable colours.
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