I bought a TV off of craigslist last week, but unfortunately, it isn't yet in working condition: it is a 4 year old Hitachi 1080i CRT RPTV. At about 30cu. ft. and 240lb., it's freaking huge, but it met my three most important criteria: it was cheap, big, and an HDTV. I've grown of watching HDTV on my 22" monitor.
<br><br>Unfortunately, my new TV has a pretty serious problem. It is badly out of convergence, and the convergence and picture geometry can only be adjusted with the use of the remote control that I do not have. So, I'm probably going to have to drop $50 on a replacement remote.
<br><br>Unless there is a way to compensate for the image distortion before it gets to the monitor, that is. The problem with the monitor is that the red gun traces a line that is something like 7*sin(x/1920) lines above/below where it should be where x is the number of pixels from the left edge of the screen.
<br><br>In theory, if could just apply a filter to the red channel in X or the video driver, I could coax a reasonable picture out of my set without needing to fix the convergence. I'm intrigued by this possibility mostly because it is a much cooler solution than buying a remote. (If i just wanted an easy solution, I wouldn't be using mythtv).
<br><br>So, where should I start looking for ideas on how to accomplish this? I have one frontend with an nvidia 5200 graphics card, a macbook, and a frontend that needs a new video card (I had been hoping to use the integrated 945G video, but it is VGA out and my monitor only has a DVI input), so I am pretty flexible when it comes to video drivers.
<br><br>Looking forward to you suggestions,<br> Chris <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 377 2020 x248<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>