When I bring up the green text help menu on a black background the black area lights up and has a green hue or glow (stars or white text on a black background light up the screen too where there is no light). Is this ANSI washout? Does this have anything to do with the halos I've heard about?
Note to Raster: Keep yourself if you're planning on playing moderator, because I am about to talk about screens below and I don't want to here "Wrong Forum. Ask in the screen forum." from you, I want help from CRTers who are aware of this problem more than the digital people who hang out in the screen forums more often (for obvious reason).
Is there a simple way to get rid of this by using another type of white screen (specific gain perhaps?)? I tried the silver side of my screen (Silver PVC) and compared it against the white side and found that the silver stayed completely black during text or bright objects on a black background. The black areas did not light up at all and had no color hue or glow whatsoever, unlike the white side. This was pretty awesome to me, because it looked so much better when the blacks did not light up and did not have a green glow or hue when the green help menu was brought up.
The silver side is also WAY brighter and more vivid than the white side, but unfortunately it hotspots with the CRT without some kind off matte layer on front. I had a frosted vinyl layer over it before, but the layer would drift off a little bit making parts a bit out of focus, so I got rid of it and had to use the white side. It just would not stay on flat no matter how much it was stretched on.
The silver side seemed to help ANSI contrast a lot.
Anyway, I was wondering if this problem occurs on all CRTs and/or on all white colored screens or not?
If all white screens have this little problem with CRT projectors I may have to jump back to silver somehow. Please reply with any information on this issue. If there's anything that would help without having to go back to silver please let me know.
Thanks
Note to Raster: Keep yourself if you're planning on playing moderator, because I am about to talk about screens below and I don't want to here "Wrong Forum. Ask in the screen forum." from you, I want help from CRTers who are aware of this problem more than the digital people who hang out in the screen forums more often (for obvious reason).
Is there a simple way to get rid of this by using another type of white screen (specific gain perhaps?)? I tried the silver side of my screen (Silver PVC) and compared it against the white side and found that the silver stayed completely black during text or bright objects on a black background. The black areas did not light up at all and had no color hue or glow whatsoever, unlike the white side. This was pretty awesome to me, because it looked so much better when the blacks did not light up and did not have a green glow or hue when the green help menu was brought up.
The silver side is also WAY brighter and more vivid than the white side, but unfortunately it hotspots with the CRT without some kind off matte layer on front. I had a frosted vinyl layer over it before, but the layer would drift off a little bit making parts a bit out of focus, so I got rid of it and had to use the white side. It just would not stay on flat no matter how much it was stretched on.
The silver side seemed to help ANSI contrast a lot.
Anyway, I was wondering if this problem occurs on all CRTs and/or on all white colored screens or not?
If all white screens have this little problem with CRT projectors I may have to jump back to silver somehow. Please reply with any information on this issue. If there's anything that would help without having to go back to silver please let me know.
Thanks