Why does part of my TV screen look like its eyes are crossed?
May 7, 2008 10:12 AM Subscribe
The colors on the right-hand side of my projection HD-TV are slightly out of phase ... what can I do?
I have a three-year-old 1080i projection TV, and I've just noticed that on roughly the right one-third, the red and green colors are slightly out of phase (if that's the proper term) with one another. It became noticeable when I set up my new Xbox and went to the menus - the A and B buttons in the lower-right corner, for instance, are very blurry, each of them looking like two circles that don't quite overlap. It gets better as you move to the left; by the mid-point of the screen, it's perfectly fine.
Is this a regular maintenance thing for big-screen units? Is there something I can do to recalibrate it? Anything else that might be causing this? (The cable box and Xbox are on that side of the screen by spatial necessity, for instance - could that be causing it?)
I have a three-year-old 1080i projection TV, and I've just noticed that on roughly the right one-third, the red and green colors are slightly out of phase (if that's the proper term) with one another. It became noticeable when I set up my new Xbox and went to the menus - the A and B buttons in the lower-right corner, for instance, are very blurry, each of them looking like two circles that don't quite overlap. It gets better as you move to the left; by the mid-point of the screen, it's perfectly fine.
Is this a regular maintenance thing for big-screen units? Is there something I can do to recalibrate it? Anything else that might be causing this? (The cable box and Xbox are on that side of the screen by spatial necessity, for instance - could that be causing it?)
Best answer: My older HD projection TV has this problem. The colors can be realigned using the remote. The location is menu/picture/convergence. Covergence lets me align the colors using a set of cross-hairs, which I can do in 9 positions on the screen.
posted by pseudonick at 10:27 AM on May 7, 2008
posted by pseudonick at 10:27 AM on May 7, 2008
My sony projection tv has this problem. It has a "flash focus" button on the side of the TV control panel that realigns it, though only for a day or so.
posted by frieze at 10:39 AM on May 7, 2008
posted by frieze at 10:39 AM on May 7, 2008
Response by poster: Spot-on, pseudonick - there were whole layers of menus in my setup that I'd never messed with. Thanks!
posted by jbickers at 10:55 AM on May 7, 2008
posted by jbickers at 10:55 AM on May 7, 2008
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posted by pmbuko at 10:23 AM on May 7, 2008