I’m still in the process of unpacking and arranging and rearranging and rearranging and rearranging furniture. This is a process that I fear might very well have no end.
A couple of weekends ago, I was suddenly motivated to try a different television set-up. I wanted to try placing the TV on a shelf unit because it would provide more space for stereo equipment and speakers. Turns out, that wasn’t one of my more intelligent decorating decisions. After I spent an hour or so putting the shelving unit together and moving the equipment onto it, I got sidetracked doing other stuff and turned off the TV without having given the picture a good look. I assumed all was well, which as it turns out, was a little foolish on my part. A few days later, I sat down to watch television and noticed a weird green tinge along the right-hand edge of the picture. I assumed I’d bumped the TV and damaged it when I moved it. A new TV is notnotnot in my budget right now, so I was right some Jesus cranky about it. Hrmf!
Then, last weekend, I was describing the problem to a friend. I told her that it was as if all the colors along the right-hand edge of the screen had been polarized, because they were opposite of what they were supposed to be. Then, it hit me. Duh! Polarization! I had placed a fairly large speaker above the TV. A fairly large speaker containing a fairly large woofer containing a fairly large magnet. I removed the speaker, and everything went back to normal. Huzzah!
The moral of that story is two-fold. First, sometimes it’s best to listen to your lazy inner voice when it tells you to sit on your ass and watch television instead of rearranging furniture. Second, don’t place speakers in close proximity to your TV.
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