Princess "Walkabout" colour screen and cassette and radio

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Originally Posted by bgadow

I once rode a ferry with a 27" color set installed. They turned it on when we were in the port and it looked great; once the boat got moving it was instantly clear how much purity changes with movement.

I too rode ships with CRT sets - they call them Aircraft Carriers. Our biggest problem wasn't the orientation of the ship - it was the ship's degaussing system for protection against magnetic mines. The system ran on two modes - auto and manual. In manual, you knew when to expect the TV to go squirrely, but the auto mode was a pain. Get into the good part of a movie, and suddenly Bruce Willis is all purple and green. Good thing MCM carried cheap degaussing coils - I purchased two with the credit card - one for me and one for my Department Head (yeah, I was a suck-up!).

Changes in the ship's orientation brought only mild purity changes, unless you operated near the equator - then all bets were off. We operated off Panama in the summer of 1989 and had bum purity on our 19" metal-cabinet Teknika (lowest bidder, I'm sure) set for a week. The set's deguassing came close, but never quite got it cleaned up. Upon return to more northern 'climes, it was sufficient to return the purity to normal.

Worst part about TV on an aircraft carrier? The dang Seatel satellite feed - one channel in each polarization. CNN International on one, and EUROsport or MTV India on the other. I never got into Soccer or the MTV India, so it pretty much was CNN all the time.

Cheers,