[mythtv-users] STEP 3 Destroy your TV

[David Brodbeck]

Brian Wood wrote:
> That's a standard disclaimer for anything having to do with driving
> monitors. It's been around since the first days of X.
>
> It's really not such a problem these days, any monitor so old and
> crappy that it could be destroyed by incorrect timings probably
> *should* be blown up.

It also involves a failure mode that's specific to CRT monitors.  You
can't blow up an LCD by driving it with an out-of-range signal as far as
I know.