Don't forget about the alignment of the shadow mask on those color tubes! Modern TVs are essentially "unserviceable". New sets can be built faster than any repair would take. Fortunately modern sets are vastly more reliable than their predecessors. Now manufacturers have to come up with gimmicks to sell new sets. currently, that is 4K!
Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.*Abraham Lincoln <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Abraham_Lincoln/>*, *Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862* *16th president of US (1809 - 1865)* On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Monday 23 October 2017 04:52:58 andy pugh wrote: > > > On 23 October 2017 at 01:35, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > Now of course, except for psu electrolytics, tv's aren't generally > > > repairable, no data. The consumer has been trained to toss & buy > > > new. :( > > > > I think it is more complicated that that. > > > > I think that an analogue CRT TV is the last device that any one person > > could understand all of. > > I can imagine that there are people who could make a CRT and design > > the receiver circuits. > > > > I don't think that there are many people who can make an LCD, but for > > the sake of argument I will assume there are some. > > But I bet those few people don't _also_ understand the digital > > broadcast codecs. > > I think that also is a valid belief Andy. As for the latter, I know how > to monitor that digital data stream for distortions that can kill your > range, but couldn't begin to build that encoder. That has all taken > place since I retired. Building a monochrome crt is a piece of cake, but > theres a huge amount of precision involved in the laying of the phosphor > dots or stripes on the back face of the screen in the case of a > trinitron tube, that few in the world still have working gear to make > those. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
