OT Pickeys take CRT TVs

[ARW]

That's what they did!

[whisky-dave]

Essex girl orange wondering when that'll appear as a paint colour.

[Scott M]

I've given up pointing out to people that their set settings are c*ck-eyed, be it colour or aspect ratio. Most people are so thick they either don't notice or don't care. Just as long as they've spent a lot of money on buying the thing in the first place then they're happy.

[Tim Watts]

On Friday 03 January 2014 14:53 Scott M wrote in uk.d-i-y:

And how many people tweak the albeit limited adjusments on a computer monitor whilst viewing some test pictures (I do).

[Scott M]

Reminds me of the HT(?) focus pot I used to fiddle with on my Phillips CRT monitor for my old Archimedes. Was distinctly fuzzy out of the factory and this pulled it back into line (though it was never quite as good as others I saw - prolly needed adjustments I wouldn't have understood then (or now!))

[jfflkjflkjflkdfj]

Well, I'm lucky enough to have 2 24" flat screen monitors at work - software development. I've never managed to adjust them to get the same colour on both. Both HP monitors but not the same model.

[DerbyBorn]

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With you on this - some people delight in telling you how much they have spent. It usually equated to them wasting about 50% of what the spent because the item they bought was over priced and over specified.

[Graham.]

I remember recycling 1970s style. All the written-off sets would go in the back yard and the regional manager would visit armed with a hammer and would smash the CRT necks and each PCB in turn so none of us engineers could make any use of any part for our "foreigner" businesses.

I should explain that "foreigner" in this context was private unofficial work we all did on the side. The expression seems to have gone out of use.

[Bill Wright]

An astonishing statement.

Bill

[F Murtz]

"Foreign orders",I was often designated to do them. I have been in large concerns where one person seemed to be employed full time for them,(stopped individuals wasting company time doing their own)

[Tim Lamb]

I suspect my children of *fiddling*:-)

This can be anything from computer settings, radio tuning, heating thermostat, heating on/off times to setting the PVR to record programmes I know they will never watch.

Tweaking the colour or back light settings is minor. If only they could bother to reset stuff when they go home!

That said, I find many films *over dark* when viewed with an LCD screen.

[polygonum]

I had always believed (rightly or wrongly) that at least some of the tanned look occurred when viewing material originated under NTSC and converted to PAL. In the early days of UK colour broadcast, quite a large proportion of programming that was broadcast in colour was of US origin. The UK produced programs, most especially some of the "trade test" broadcasts, seemed to be of much higher quality in terms of colour.

The Never Twice the Same Color false acronym seemed to support this idea.

[Onetap]

I wonder if that might explain David Dickinson, Essex girls and many others? Was there a widely held delusion that all 'celebs' have orange sun tans as a result of poorly adjusted TVs?

[tony sayer]

In article , Graham. scribeth thus

How wasteful didn't they send them of for re-gunning?..

I've sometimes heard that referred to as a "Homer" ...FWIW...

[charles]

I recall a BBC studio which was being used to contribute to an American programme in the late 60s. The US studio director demanded that the cameras be adjusted to give garish flesh tones. "They pay for color - we give them color"

[tony sayer]

In article , charles scribeth thus

And so it was in the early days. When we started supplying the Phillips G8 range most everyone then commented that they looked very realistic and lifelike!..

Bl**dy public they never know what's best for 'em;!...

[bert]

In message , Graham. writes

No still going strong

[newshound]

They were killers, too, if you touched the wrong bit: I have a brother in law who was in the trade and he lost his partner that way.

[SteveW]

Our first colour set was a Decca, in the early 70s and the previous owner would have got it in the 60s. My dad bought it - not working - for a fiver from a guy at work and figured out that a couple of new capacitors would fix it. The frightening thing is that the guy he got it from had "bought" it with cigarette coupons! No wonder he ended up dying early!

SteveW

[Graham.]

I an earlier discussion of this topic it was suggested that the usage was regional. Are you in the North?