On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:00:22 -0330, "Chris Fewer" <chrisfewer@yahoo.com.nospam> wrote:

>"Neuman - Ruether" <d_ruether@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>news:3e253fe7.3342241@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...

>> On 14 Jan 2003 06:57:49 -0800, solteszbr@msx.upmc.edu (ben)

>> wrote:

>> >This could be just some strange coincidence but I was pointing my

>> >Cannon Optura Pi at my TV last night while I was showing my son how to

>> >use manual focus. Later when I tried to turn on my TV - nothing! Now

>> >my GE TV is about 10 years old but I've never had any problems with it

>> >and nothing recently to suggest it was about to die.

>> >Could the infrared from the camcorder messed up the TV somehow through

>> >the tube or remote sensor? I'm very perplexed.

>> I assume you have switched the input back to "tuner"...? ;-)

>> If so, the only thing I can think of (unlikely) is that

>> the brightness was set high enough on the TV for feedback of

>> the camera image to damage the TV (the camera "sees" the TV

>> screen, sends an image of it to the TV which brightens it,

>> that is picked up by the camera which again sends it to the

>> TV, etc. - but DV is limited to a fairly safe level of

>> output, the TV should tolerate brief over-brightening, and

>> failure would likely happen while you were watching it...).

>I read it as saying he was using his TV as a subject, like a pot of flowers

>or a rock...

>If that's his case, then the answer is no, and it's a coincidence.

You are right, on both counts! ;-)

(The original poster sent me an email clarifying

what he had done. I often connect the camera to

the TV for various purposes, including demonstrating

some aspects of video to someone, so I took it that

he had done the same [otherwise, the answer was

obvious...;-].)