TV service menu?

[Greg2600]

I've found tinkering with an old TV's service menu usually gets you nowhere. The reality is the manufacturers back then didn't care about geometry going bad after 20 years or more. If it was askew after a few years, nobody cared, it rarely affected your watching of simply television as opposed to games.

[gbpxl]

I've found tinkering with an old TV's service menu usually gets you nowhere. The reality is the manufacturers back then didn't care about geometry going bad after 20 years or more. If it was askew after a few years, nobody cared, it rarely affected your watching of simply television as opposed to games.

well people in general dont care that much it seems. a guy I talk to at my local game store who is a tech freak and a film buff says he stretches the picture out of Full Screen DVDs so that it fills the entire 16:9 screen. i cant imagine watching a movie that way

[jb143]

well people in general dont care that much it seems. a guy I talk to at my local game store who is a tech freak and a film buff says he stretches the picture out of Full Screen DVDs so that it fills the entire 16:9 screen. i cant imagine watching a movie that way

Ugh...sounds like watching a move at my in-laws. And they also keep their TV on factory settings so everything looks like a soap opera.

As far as the picture tilting again after adjusting it, I'm not sure why that would happen. I've got an old Trinitron CRT that I rigged up as an arcade monitor and it has a few geometry issues and just a bit of tilt that used to bother me some. But the only place I notice it is on startup when it shows the test grid pattern.

[gbpxl]

Ugh...sounds like watching a move at my in-laws. And they also keep their TV on factory settings so everything looks like a soap opera.

As far as the picture tilting again after adjusting it, I'm not sure why that would happen. I've got an old Trinitron CRT that I rigged up as an arcade monitor and it has a few geometry issues and just a bit of tilt that used to bother me some. But the only place I notice it is on startup when it shows the test grid pattern.

I heard it had something to do with the poles of the Earth. not sure. I did move it recently, about 15 feet. I cant imagine moving it 4 hundred-thousandths of a degree north made that big of a difference. maybe I pissed off the retro gaming Gods because I wasn't playing enough

[jb143]

There could be a possibility that might mess it up, but I wouldn't think so. Generally, that's more likely to be the cause of gaussing issues.