[BC] Re: BC] Tom's Yoke...

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I thought about this myself, though in a different way.  There is a  
bit of convergence between computer monitors and TVs in regards to  
mounting -- in particular VESA mounts.  Some VESA mounts, like those I  
bought for my 30 inch Apple monitors, allow the monitor to rotate 90  
degrees.  This can be useful in some applications.  I considered using  
one of those mounts for the TV in my bedroom, moving it from the foot  
of the bed to "my side" and rotating the screen as I go to sleep.

I would rather it be easy to turn off the backlight, but that is a  
different issue.

--chip

On Jun 11, 2009, at 6:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 9
> From: "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at att.net>
>
> I once decided it would be neat to rotate the yoke 90 degrees so
> that  could lay in bed and watch TV without having to creek my neck
> over.  It was a bad idea.
>
> Burt
>
> At 03:00 AM 6/10/2009, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote
>> The earliest mischievous prank I can recall was
>> when I was about 9 years old. I fooled around
>> with TV sets and one day my mother's aunt said
>> something that just didn't sit well with me. In those
>> old tube TV sets you could rotate the deflection yoke
>> 180 degrees.......