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BradTheAggie · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 651 Location: Oak Point, Texas

I finally got the XG75 ready to ship to the guy I was helping out in California. I pulled the neck cards and boxed them separately, then pulled the lenses and took pics. The red and blue look perfect. The green shows between a 7 and an 8 (closer to an 8) condition, with the classic small wear pattern in the center of the tube, characteristic of an improperly set up NEC projector. How visible will this be? I'll post pics of the green tonight...

Brad

CZ Eddie · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 1601 Location: Austin, TX

On a solid green field, you will notice the wear pattern if you set the raster larger than the pattern.
But watching movies, you will rarely ever notice it. Except maybe once in awhile when the video shows a sky view or something very very bright, like white, without lots of other things to break up the image.

You will probably need to raise green drive a bit and maybe lower red & blue drive, to ensure an all white field does not have a slight pink tinge to it. This and proper grayscale will make it worthy.

ecrabb · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:27 pm Post subject:

Depends how much of a stickler a guy is whether it will be bothersome. Some guys would hardly notice while it would driver others batty. I'm one of the latter.

Where you'll really notice it is like Eddie said, skies, snowy scenes... Anything where the APL is fairly high, and the background is pretty consistent... On a sky for instance, there will be a noticeable (and obnoxious to some) brighter greenish "frame" around the outside of the picture.

SC

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Any wear you can see on the tube face will be visible on the screen provided it's within the raster area to be used.

How much? Just as noticeable on the screen as when you look at the tube face, exactly. Wear that's so faint you have a hard time
seeing it on the CRT face will be hard to see on the screen. Obvious wear will be obvious. Severe, severe.

CJ

CZ Eddie · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 1601 Location: Austin, TX

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

It's fair to note that wear on green is MOST noticeable. It takes more wear on red and blue (especially blue) to be noticeable.

But green...what you see is what you WILL see.

CJ

BradTheAggie · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 651 Location: Oak Point, Texas

Here is the green tube:

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

That's pretty watchable. Whoever's watching that PJ will probably stop noticing it pretty quickly.

CJ

dturco · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 2:38 am Post subject:

That's not bad at all my green is far darker and I barely notice it at all, except in full white sceens like Star Gate Continuum's ice scenes.[img][/img]