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| Stormdemon:
I'd like to play horizontal and vertical games on my TV. What precautions do I have to take? I'd like to rotate it usually, maybe one or two times a week. Since tvs don't have degaussing utilities, I don't know what's the correct way I have to follow to prevent breakdowns, heating, image and color distortion... Anyone has experiences with this? Do you recommend me removing the case of the tv? Is it better to wait for some time before switching it on after you've rotated it? If it's not save, I think I'll use two tvs, but it would be better for me to have only one and rotate it manually when I feel like playing vertical or horizontal games. |
| REBIRTH:
I can't speak for a TV, but I rotate my PC Monitor. Just for space considferation, I took the outer casing off of my monitor (there is an inner metal casing on mine). If I could have I would have removed that too just to make it easier to mount, but after trying to do that a few times I gave up because there was almost no way of doing it without damaging the guts of the monitor. As for spinning it without a degauss... Similar to taking the case off, I tried getting to the degauss buttin to hack into it so I could attach a button to the top of the cab to press when turning it. It was so impacted into the guts of the monitor, I would have had to remove that metal case to get to it. So what I do will probably work for you... what I do is I have the montior hooked up to it's own power supply (which is then plugged into the main power strip for everything else - so when everything else turns on, the monitor does too). When it is time to spin it I press the power button just for the monitor to turn it off and then spin it with the power to the monitor off (I have a button on the top of the cab just for this monitor). Then when it is in place I power it back up. At least on a monitor, it goes through a degauss on power up so all is well. Again, I'm not a TV expert, maybe this isn't even necessary. As for hurting the TV/monitor - I am sure it can't be the best thing for it, and the longer you leave it off after spinning it the better I assume. Normally I try to only spin it once during a playing session to cut my damage chances down. |
| AlanS17:
The whole idea sounds risky, but what do I know? I imagine you probably find it a bit risky too, or else you wouldn't have asked anything... (But then again... what do I know?) |
| REBIRTH:
--- Quote from: AlanS17 on June 20, 2003, 10:52:33 am ---The whole idea sounds risky, but what do I know? I imagine you probably find it a bit risky too, or else you wouldn't have asked anything... (But then again... what do I know?) --- End quote --- There are plenty of people rotating their TV's/monitors without a problem. If no one was doing it, I would be wary of doing it myself, but since I spoke to a number of people doing it - I did it myself. I love having the extra screen space for vertical games by rotating the monitor (instead of the graphices being squished down to fit in an horizontal screen - or vice versa). Then again, I really don't know anything either and my monitor could explode on me in the middle of a cranking Defender game.... |
| meta87:
I remember this guy doing a rotating monitor; http://www.russprince.com/cabinet/ |
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