Bouncing DVD Logo

Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by gattilorenz on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:34AM (#22887638)

And if they didn't, and somehow you managed to magnetize it, you needed to use a degaussing coil, moving it away from the screen in a spiralling motion... ah, the memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pVLizAHby4

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Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by soylentcola on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:49AM (#22889315)

I assume that by "somehow managed to magnetize it" you mean "had crappy detachable boom box speakers sitting on top of it in college, causing the TV to eventually display distorted blobs at the top edge of the image".

No? Huh, guess it was just me ;)

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Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by gattilorenz on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:04AM (#22889468)

I honestly don't know. I picked up a Compaq monitor with a magnetized grille from the trash in 2002 or so, and used for my secondary pc (a venerable P200 MMX that took a LONG time to recompile the 2.4 kernel on a then-unstable Debian Sarge).

No idea how the previous owner managed to magnetize it, it never happened to me.

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Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by digitalsushi on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:15AM (#22889564)

I did that, and figured out if you flipped the speaker around, you could "paint" the distortion away.

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