I did that with my old schools CRT monitors I had a projection TV at home so I couldn’t do it at home

@@Lucario0007what’s a projection TV? (I’m not some snotty iPad kid that has no knowledge on the 90s. I’ve just never heard of it until now) and also, when you say you couldn’t, do you mean you weren’t allowed or that you just weren’t able to do so

@@marioboi323 it’s a early wide screen TV using a projector like light behind the screen that displays the image a bit like a smart board without the touchscreens these couldn’t have the magnetic thing on them due to the lack of the vacuum tube

@@Lucario0007 oh cool. Did it have a 4:3 option or did you have to deal with stretched out 4:3 images?

@@marioboi323 my dad managed to somehow make SpongeBob the correct layout but I never could

yeah first time I saw this and did this it was really surprising. I learned to work on TV's, cameras, etc in the Air Force as a broadcast engineer for their overseas TV stations (AFN), going through school this was one of the many things we needed to learn.

​@@CraigKergald That's pretty interesting! My grandpa was also in the Air Force and he told me that he was a technician person who worked on computers, TVs, and electronics, I'm not fully sure what exactly he did but I know he was more of a tech guy which is always fun and cool to see!

very cool, while we did have career fields there was some overlap and opportunities to work outside out field based on need and skill. My field did not cross over into computers however our IT shop was severely understaffed, we were overstaffed and the right people discovered I had the skills and interest in working on computers, networks, servers, etc. This was in the late 1990's I'm not certain the same would be true today.

@@CraigKergald Hello, I would like to ask for advice. I use device Remarkable 2, with EMR screen. Electro Magnetic Resonance. It looks like this screen can be fixed with small degaussing tool for watch repairs. Degausser contains small transformer inside. Do you think that this device can damage internal electronics or screen? It has no HDD inside. I have problem with dead area of screen, pen doesnt draw a line, but on finger touch button work.

@@orion310591RS first thanks for the comment and question and watching my video. Second, EMR is not a technology I am very familiar with and had to google it so I will not be giving you much advice on this, however it does appear as though there are circuits that read the electromagnetic values from very small wires embedded into the screen and these electromagnetic fields would be rather small I would be concerned degaussing a screen like this may induce more voltage/current than those circuits are designed to handle and would not recommend it unless you get advice from someone that knows much more about these screens than I do. I did find this reddit post that may help you though www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/ny9qlf/remarkable_2_has_regions_where_stylus_is/

I still hear it well into my 40's but not as pronounced as it was when I was younger.

I remember it being pronounced, but people always were confused when I mentioned "the sound of a TV turning on" because they couldn't hear it. Kids now think I mean a jingle

LOL, the worst was when someone that couldn't hear it would leave the TV on but with no input so just a black picture. I was always like why did you leave it on, and they were always how did you know it was on ?

​@@CraigKergaldreminds me of when I was a kid. My dad liked to watch horror movies after us kids went to bed, and I remember waking up to that ping, sometime after my dad would turn in. I'd have to sneak downstairs to go shut the TV off to get back to sleep

I hate then

Flyback...

sorry, never really expected this video to get anywhere near the number of views it received I will probably re-do this video in the near future as it was one of my first and can be improved greatly.

I'll try, it will have to be captured by camera as the actual video signal going into the screen is not manipulated in any way it would just be a standard test pattern.

I've never had luck with just a normal magnet but thats cool if it worked for you.

Thanks for the message, you may want to check out the updated version of this video, this one was made early on with a poor quality mic.

All CRT's will experience this color shift issue with changes in magnetic fields around them, however many consumer TV's have built in degaussing circuitry already. This arcade monitor in a TV housing does not. This is very similar to what I am using - www.amazon.com/Waldom-Degaussing-Coil-Color-Power/dp/B00011UYJU/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=degaussing+coil&qid=1691578633&sprefix=degaussin%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-3

The colored dots are not really pixels but they are phosphors that the electron beam lights up. Degaussing just corrects the magnetic field on the screen so the correct phosphors are lit up when the electron beam scans across them. The geometry adjusts this size and shape of the image on screen but will not effect which colors are illuminated.

Some of the later CRTs before everybody switched to flatpanels had an option built into the monitor itself to degaus. I never really understood why it was there because I never seemed to need it.

the beam that draws an image on the screen is steered around that screen using electro magnets, when you rotate the screen the natural magnetic forces (earth's) orientation changes slightly causing the beams to be slightly mis-aligned. a regular TV has a built in degauss function that would take care of this but my monitor does not. This could also happen if just moving the monitor around from one location to another at my home though not normally as pronounced.

Some do, some don't

@@CraigKergald Ah, ok. I just wondered why that might be, if it's a cost issue or something

I'm sure costs were a reason for some manufactures including mine who made this generic arcade chassis (circuit board). For others it may of been a design oversight, or because the monitors ran all day every day without really being moved in cabinets.

Thanks

degaussing will probably help, Sony TV's should have a basic built in degauss feature. I'd recommend unplugging power from the TV let it sit for 30-60 minutes then plug the power back in, when you first turn it on it should energize that degauss circuit for a moment which is hopefully enough to straighten out your colors, if not you might need to get something like this tool I use.

@@CraigKergald ya I have tryed to see if it would automatically do it, I can't get the feature to work & sadly degaussing rings like that cost an arm & a leg

@@9ALiTY Try this - www.amazon.com/SaiDian-Degausser-Degaussing-Demagnetizer-Television/dp/B0BD7Q2GKT/ref=sr_1_4?crid=39MT740GMGOD1&keywords=degaussing+wand&qid=1693511303&sprefix=degaussing+wand%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-4 it has free returns if it doesn't work out for you.

this is an arcade monitor and has knobs (pots) used to adjust these settings. if your image is slightly rotated your yoke is probably rotated (the big magnetic coils on the back of the tube) Once you get that fixed you will need to look up a service manual for your model TV to see if you can adjust the image size further.

@@CraigKergald How easily can I fix the yoke issue myself? I've hear opening up crts van be dangerous.

Easy and dangerous aren't mutually exclusive, if your yoke is loose its not that difficult to fix but you will be working around high voltage, you should either find someone comfortable with it or at least do some research on CRT yoke adjustments before getting started

While this looks like a TV its really an arcade monitor placed inside of a TV housing, the back is open and has the regular knobs/pots you use to adjust a arcade monitor. I'm just turning those to make these adjustments.