Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!jhc From: jhc@hou5g.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Mag tape shielding Message-ID: <494@hou5g.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 11:06:24 EST Article-I.D.: hou5g.494 Posted: Tue Jan 15 11:06:24 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:08:25 EST References: <4400005@iuvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 15 <> I read a scholarly article about this some little time ago where the point was made that most TV sets are pretty well shielded on the sides and top. Thus the only direction you have to worry about is straight down. Apparently no-one really knows what effect proximity to a monitor will have on videotapes but gradual deterioration of picture quality over a period of months or years is expected. Try standing the monitor on (or lining the videotape compartment of your furniture with) a sheet of aluminium foil if you like - that should stop most of the low-energy EM radiation. Jonathan Clark ATT ISL Holmdel NJ [NAC]!hou5g!jhc