wavy_davy

Has anyone experienced or know about a slant appearing on the top left hand side of their tv picture after shipment. I've heard it's summat to do with the earth's magnetic field or one of the yokes coming away or loose in the back of the set. Has anyone else had this happen and how was it fixed?

Cheers

Dave

Hutch

You saying a diagonal realignment or a defect caused by the TV being too close to a magnet in speakers for instance?

wavy_davy

Can stereo speakers affect the picture then?

Sandgrownun

If you have placed speakers near the tv set you can get this, often a greenish slant in the corner of the picture. This will grow over time.

Use magenetically shielded speakers such as those that come with many home cinema setups.

LSH

Hi this does happen sometimes when you move tv's to other parts of the world! Some of the upmarket brands do have an adjustment in the setup menu. Check in the handbook, but failing that you will need an engineer to get into the installer menus and adjust the picture manually! Nothing is wrong just an adjustment is required.

Leo

Hutch

Yea, big-time, if they're unshielded.

wavy_davy

I've already tried the geometry settings which are in the tv's menu
it's not a rotational problem just one corner.

extrameant

Is it a CRT or lcd telly? LCD's are imune to magnetic influence.
If its a crt, does it rattle? It might be a magnet glued to the tube has fallen off.
Could be quite a few other things unfortunately. There are high voltages inside a crt telly, and they can remain for some time after you switch off. Generally not fatal but you can get bad injuries from pulling your hand out quickly and involuntarily. If you are feeling brave you could have a look and see if something is obviously loose or fallen off.

Luma

Did you take out electrical derangement insurance? If so - then maybe you can claim for it.

Wendy

Have you got a link?

Luma

No link.

If the OP reads their insurance policy they can check to see if it is covered.

wavy_davy

Yeps it's a CRT and it's too heavy too see if it rattles, I've been given photographic guidance by my brother in law who designs and builds tellies in the Sony labs at Basingstoke but am a bit wary of the voltage issue, methinks an engineer may be the answer, and electronic derangement is not covered but this is not what's caused it.

Big Galah

I've heard you can fix it with a big magnet.

extrameant

Or a big stick.