Steve Schaffer
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Greg,
"normal" in this context refers specifically to the "gray bar mode" as that's what sony calls it. It does not refer to the regular widescreen mode (that they call "full"), so it's ok to watch 16/9 stuff.
I think we both could agree that with proper calibration and use patterns these crt based sets will suffer no damage-I've owned two of them and that's been my experience.
Do the sets have to ship in torch mode, or could they ship in a more reasonable state and let the stores just put the display models in torch mode, thus protecting the consumer ignorant of proper setup? Sounds like a good idea except that since most owners don't read owner's manuals and a goodly number don't ever touch the picture controls a lot of sets would be returned as defective because the one delivered to the customer isn't in the torch mode they saw in the store.
Even if the sets didn't ship in torch mode, the user could easily crank it up and damage it anyway.
Would such an owner have a case against the mfg simply because the option to crank up the contrast to the point of damaging the set existed in the first place? There are probably those who would argue that they would, so apparently neither a warning or shipping in non-torch mode is sufficient to save us from ourselves.
So we're left with the obvious conclusion that the set must be entirely foolproof and incapable of burn in under any circumstances whatsoever, which means no more crt based rptvs can be sold because if you leave a paused video game on it long enough no matter how dim the thing will eventually burn in even if it takes a year, and we're being absolutist about this.
The logical extension of this is that no automobile capable of actual motion should be sold to the public as if it can move it can be run into a stationary object and be damaged.
"normal" in this context refers specifically to the "gray bar mode" as that's what sony calls it. It does not refer to the regular widescreen mode (that they call "full"), so it's ok to watch 16/9 stuff.
I think we both could agree that with proper calibration and use patterns these crt based sets will suffer no damage-I've owned two of them and that's been my experience.
Do the sets have to ship in torch mode, or could they ship in a more reasonable state and let the stores just put the display models in torch mode, thus protecting the consumer ignorant of proper setup? Sounds like a good idea except that since most owners don't read owner's manuals and a goodly number don't ever touch the picture controls a lot of sets would be returned as defective because the one delivered to the customer isn't in the torch mode they saw in the store.
Even if the sets didn't ship in torch mode, the user could easily crank it up and damage it anyway.
Would such an owner have a case against the mfg simply because the option to crank up the contrast to the point of damaging the set existed in the first place? There are probably those who would argue that they would, so apparently neither a warning or shipping in non-torch mode is sufficient to save us from ourselves.
So we're left with the obvious conclusion that the set must be entirely foolproof and incapable of burn in under any circumstances whatsoever, which means no more crt based rptvs can be sold because if you leave a paused video game on it long enough no matter how dim the thing will eventually burn in even if it takes a year, and we're being absolutist about this.
The logical extension of this is that no automobile capable of actual motion should be sold to the public as if it can move it can be run into a stationary object and be damaged.