"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:35:01 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
wrote:

Little bit OT in that it's not any item that's on my bench, or ever will
be
...

Just returned from a trip across the pond, and the return aircraft was a
B-767 - the crappy dash 200 model with overhead screens. The large screen
which was on the bulkhead a few rows in front of me, and which I believe
was
an LCD not a plaz, had real horizontal linearity issues at the lefthand
side. Nothing 'sharp' or 'digital' as you might expect with LCD display
technology, but a smoothly worsening error, the further you got to the
lefthand side. By about a quarter of the way across, the lin was normal,
and
remained so across the rest of the screen. The best way to describe it is
that it looked exactly as a CRT set would, if someone had mis-set the
H-linearity coil.

Now I've been involved with LCD TV sets and monitors since they were first
out, and I can't ever remember seeing one with this sort of effect. Saddo
that I am, I have been wracking my brains to try to figure out just how
this
could even occur.

Anyone else ever seen this effect on an LCD display, or have any thoughts
on
how it could occur ?

Arfa


My Olevia 32" has a 'panoramic' setting that makes it look as you
desribe but on both sides.

My mother's widescreen Panasonic CRT set had a 'nonsense' mode like this, as
well. It used to switch itself to it automatically on such things as sports
events, so you would get a sort of 'underwater' effect as the camera panned
across a football field following the ball, or track runners that went from
Stan to Olly as they progressed across the screen. I wonder why
manufacturers put rubbish modes like this on their sets ?Did someone at Pan
actually come up with this crappy idea, and think that it looked ok ? And
worse, did his team supervisor actually sign off on it ?

Arfa