Thread: You too, RCA?
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Old 12-26-2007, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by MRX37 View Post
The picture was brighter then the other TV's there, but I've overdriven TV's before, either to compensate for a dim picture tube, or to better show darker scenes, and it's usually the 90's Zeniths that have color bleeding. The brighter the red, the worse it is. On the RCA I saw, the red was easily smearing a good 2 or 3 inches. There were no retrace lines, so the tube couldn't have been driven too hard.
A set can have good retrace blanking and still be overdriven -sounds like what happened here.
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