William Sommerwerck wrote:
Could it be that all it needed was a couple more cycles
of its own degaussing?

Likely. It also might be that the shadow mask got warped, and repeated
handling knocked it back into shape.



Just for the record, and for the benefit of anyone who comes across this
in the archive, further online research revealed that part of the
purpose of the degaussing process is to *magnetise* the shadow mask in
such a way as to cancel out the Earth's magnetic field in the space
between the mask and the screen. This is the reason the shadow mask is
made of a magnetisable material (which otherwise would seem a strange
design choice).

So my experience can be adequately explained by the fact that I powered
the TV up while it was in a completely different orientation from
normal. It was then entirely possible that this would take several
degaussing cycles to undo properly once I had the TV back in the normal
position. The situation was further confused by my failure to realise
that this model only degausses when powered up from the mains, and not
when going from standby to on. It's necessary to power it down
completely for a while before powering it up again for it to do its
degaussing.

So I guess that's that.

Sylvia.