Well, you are correct that my Samsung SyncMaster 753DF is a flat screen
CRT. However, the distortion is not the same on both axes.
Horizontally it does get worse the further from the axis. Vertically, I
suppose it could be said to grow worse with distance from the optical
axis but that means one must explain a negative effect above the
mid-point and a positive effect below the mid-point.
My wife's monitor is not a flat screen but displays as much distortion
horizontally as my flat screen monitor. It does, however, have no
distortion vertically.
I don't think the hypothesis is complete enough yet.
Chuck Norcutt
Piers Hemy wrote:
> What I suspect you are seeing, Chuck, is what Bill Pearce has alluded to - I
> guess that you have a flat screen CRT, showing increasing optical distortion
> as the beam gets further from the optical axis. If you had a hemispherical
> screen, there would be no distortion at all, and the flatter the screen, so
> the worse the distortion. (should that be "more worser"?) And it's less
> noticeable on the vertical axis because the screen is wider than it is tall.
>
> Or am I being too simplistic?
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Chuck Norcutt
> Sent: 01 December 2005 14:01
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> Subject: [OM] [OT] Help with monitor problem
>
> --snip
>
> I just went to examine the monitor on my wife's computer (even cheaper stuff
> than my cheap stuff) and see that the horizontal size problem is there as
> well and even more exaggerated. The vertical size, however, is consistent
> from top to bottom.
>
> What am I seeing? Are these typical problems with cheap monitors?
> Drift with age? Are the display adapters at fault? What do I need to do to
> fix it?
>
> Thanks. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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