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Originally Posted by bgadow
I once rode on a ferry boat that had some 27" tv sets in the cabin. They turned them on at the dock and the picture were great; as soon as the boat started moving the color went to pot and did all kinds of swirling on the whole trip. Noticed the same thing on a jetliner a few years ago, one that still had crt monitors.
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Same on Navy Aircraft Carriers, only worse - the ship has it's own degaussing system (for magnetic mine protection) - when it fires off (automatically!) it leaves a wonderful rainbow! Forrest is now green and Bubba is now blue.....
I kept a manual degaussing coil in my desk for those very moments.
Cheers,