Phil Weldon wrote:
'Philadelphia Frank' wrote, in part:
| I just hope I can't hurt anything.
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Depends on what kind of TV you have. IF your television is a CRT, or a CRT
based projection TV, then it is possible to hurt something. Televisions are
not designed to handle a wide range of horizontal and vertical rates. CRT
televisions have very high power horizontal drive circuits that also help
produce the high voltage to accelerate electrons toward the screen. Since
you don't have a profile registered for the TV you use, and since you are
using Powerstrip, it is possible to set the video card to horizontal rates
that the TV set can't handle, and that may cause damage. If you are lucky,
your TV will just reject harmful rates.

Also, the video amplifiers in a TV set are likely to have a lower frequency
cut off. For higher horiziontal and vertical rates, the video signal will
have a higher frequency, and resolution will suffer.

Unless he's using some wierd form of RGB input on the TV, it should not
be possible to hurt anything. The video card cannot output anything on
the TV out except for the normal frequencies for NTSC (or whatever
standard the TV uses).

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