Why do you never see shapes or blocks of colour in TV static?
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Because god only wants two colors in his static. Do not question him blasphemer. huh what.... oh ok... God wants me to tell you that you can access his custom color static by applying a magnet to the screen.
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That is probably a dead pixel. This could make it worse or it could fix it, Push on the spot, Then turn on the tv. Try at your own risk! It worked for me.
1022325
The CD's concentric ridges separates white light into all the colours that make it up. The colours you see reflecting from a CD are INTERFERENCE of colors , like the colours you see on a soap bubble or an oil slick.
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The flicker is caused by two things: \n\nA difference in the scanning frequency between the TV and the camera \nA difference in the way the phosphor dots are perceived between the human eye and the camera's image sensor\n\n\n- My addition - \n\nEven if both devices are operating at - say - 30 frames per second (how fast the screen updates), you might be catching the image in the middle of an update (very likely, considering how fast this occurs).
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That could get extremely detailed, but here is a simplified explanation that can fit here.\nThe TV screen is a collection of little pixels, one besides the other, arranged in lines.  The camera that takes the picture that is to be shown on TV grabs the image and then evaluates the color in each pixel of each line, and each lines, and sends that information as a signal.  The TV receptor receiving that signal (that could have been encoded, sent by cable or through radio waves, etc) then gets a signal that essentially says "first line" followed by the description of each pixels.  Then it sends the third line (the even lines are sent after the odd ones, this is what is called interlacing) and the 5th and so on until the end of the half picture.  The electronics in the TV use the signal to project a beam of electron of variable intensity to a target that is made of fluorescent phosphor, that light up as a result, and you see the picture from the other side.  Evidently, if your TV is a LCD or a plasma unit, the technology to actually reproduce the image varies from the old cathodic tube method, but the result is the same, you get an image.
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No colour. But Red , Yellow Blue & Green are on wires. RYB are 3 main phases. G is Earth /Neutral.
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This is most likely due to using the wrong TV input setting. Often you will find that if you set the TV to AV input instead of proper SVideo it will display in b/w.
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Most likely it's getting Old...You can try to correct this with you screen settings via you Video card...First try you gamma setting, contrast, brightness...but as cheap as Monitors are now, you better off getting a New LCD flat screen monitor anyways...
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Not all tvs are.  Ours is rectangular.  TVs come square and rectangular.  Why aren't there other shapes?  If there is a reason, I sure couldn't find one.
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If as I am assuming you mean the colors it can display as more colors on screen you may need a new video card.  They can increase the number of colors taht can be displayed.
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all the mistery is in RBG (red blue and green).\nit really depends in conditions.\nif u r really in a dark place u will see black coz non of the 3 cones (red, blue and green) are activated.\nbut, many time blue, green or red color can be seen for a while of closing eye- that may be because of presence of some light which activates specific cones or bleaching of certain cones- bleaching makes u to see a object even though it is not there.\n NOTE: black is actually not a color because we see it when non of the color cones are activated.\nin addition, we see white when all the color cones are activated.\n  i have a lab (PC) activity for u if u want to know how it works. \ngo to:\nhttp://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/f_exhibits.html\nchoose the option mix-n-match. u need to download shockwave to run the programme.
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This is a classic problem.\nVGA signal needs cabling for Red, Green & Blue (RGB).\nIf you miss any of them you'll see exactly what you describe (tint of red, green or blue)\nThe fact that you were changing the cable often is a further hint that this is the problem.\n\nEither your cable is broken, or any of the connectors do not connect well. Start by slowly turning the cable to see whether it gets fixed. If it does, just buy a new vga cable. if not, then start fiddling with the connectors. If there in no change at all, it may well be the connectors inside your monitor. \n\nIf you dont have any electronics experience (which I assume you dont) you better give it to a repairman to solder the loose connection. Please do not attempt to fix it yourself because open CRT monitors (like TV's) have very dangerous and exposed capacitors that can easily kill you - even if the monitor is switched off.
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It sound's like you've got an anti-aliasing issue going on. \nOr your picture is very low res. This would cause jaggies to form on your type.
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This sounds like the refresh rate may be set too low.  60 Hertz is the minimum the refresh should be set. I prefer 70 and above to smooth out the images.\n\nHope this helps.
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You don't want them to show up.\n\nIt depedning on what you mean by pixalation blocks:\n\nIf you mean that the DVD is showing huge green or blue blocks while it's playing back then you should consider burning your disks at a slower speed or change media. Some DVD players struggle to read disks which are burnt at higher speeds. You have to remember that burning at a slower speed increases the quality of the burn ( not the actual video, but the pit structure, i.e. giving more time for the dyes on the disk to settle) 8x or lower is ussaully better if your Dvd Player struggles.\n\nIf by pixilation you means that the DVD playback is very blockish, then you are using too much compression on the main video. When you take an 8.0 GB disk and you shrink it down to 4.37 GB, the software has to make certain adjustments to the video streams. The adjustments it makes is ussually to lower the bitrate on the video portion there by decreasing the quality of your video, it is called transcoding.\n\nUsing your burning software you should try and decrease the quality of (or remove) your extra features. In shrink for example you can set Custom quality on all title screens and special features, thus increasing the amount of space on the disk. Shrink picks up the increase in space and adjusts it's algorithm so that the main movie can use more space and retain more of it's quality. \n\nThe compression of your video could also be better if you removed an unnecasary sound track say the 2.0 sound track if the disk already has a Dolby 5.1 channel sound. Removing the DTS stream will have the best effect on compression since it takes up the most space. the rule to remember is the more space it has the higher the bitrate the software can use, the better the quality.\n\nI hope that helps you. I ussually keep the DTS sound track and remove sound from the menus, and directors comments from special features. I always try to keep the main title at 70% or more, but it doesn't always work out so well so accept 65% as the bare minimum.\n\nEDIT: If you want to avoid compression (decrease in bitrate) al togehter you should burn your movies to Dual layer disks, but that will most likely cause you a whole host of other problems, like your dvd player possibly not being able to read htem, not to mention it will leave a hole in your wallet.
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the effect is called Gradient!\n\nUse the help menu to figure it out, i dont have the menus memorized to talk you through it
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I had the same problem.  Not sure what the deal is either.\nI'm using VLC media player now, it's better anyway.\nhttp://www.videolan.org/vlc/