|> Rudderow, Evan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
|> : PROBLEM: Image is distorted
|>
|> : POSSIBLE CAUSE: Is the earth's magnetic field interfering with the display?
|>
|> : REMEDY: Face monitor east for best image quality.
 
Stan Sieler wrote:
|> Re: earth's magnetic field.  I read recently (Byte?) that if you re-orient
|> your monitor after it's been turned on for awhile then you might want to
|> do a manual degauss at that time (because the monitor's relation to the
|> earth's magnetic field changed).
 
"Jeff Dowsley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote (from Australia):
|Spare a thought for folk residing in the southern hemisphere, where
|the correction for the earths field has to be applied 180 degrees out
|from the north.
|
|Nice suppliers get the northern hemisphere suppliers to correct
|properly, but some are rather cavalier. (Sun Microsystems until
|recently looked very distorted!)  And re-orienting the monitor
|doesn't help down here.
 
Is the distortion less noticable with the monitor facing away from you?
A simpler arrangement might be to turn the monitor upside-down (or do you
blokes say "downside-up", eh?).  ;)
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