if somebody (my five year old) puts a magnet up to the TV screen, will that screw up the color?

Question

My daughter was walking around the house with magnet in hand, seeing what it would stick to. She was over by the TV and she said "the TV is colorful" When I finished what I was doing and focused on the TV to look for a game on, The screen was "colorful" If colorful means "all F**ked up" then wow, it is very colorful.

Answer 1

Yes, magnets will mess up a Cathode-Ray TV. You can learn a bit more at the following link, as well as some ways to correct this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degaussing

Answer 2

(First of all to all those reading who have bad tempers. Please do not hurt your children. It is not worth it.)

You might want to explain to your five year old that she does not want to watch a green Barney (or her other favorite at this age) any more than you want to watch football on a purple field.

Yes, the magnet did the trick and magnetized parts of the screen. The damage is reverse able with a simple process of turning the TV on and off daily but if that does not work then you need to hire a TV technician to degauss the set. All the tech needs to do is bring a tool that looks like a ring of a basketball hoop up to your TV. Plug that tool in and move it around the screen. The move it away from the TV. Should not cost too much. Makes the picture look good as new.

Some sets have a degauss button on them but most do not. However there is a degaussing coil built into the set. It is meant to degauss the natural magnetic field of the Earth from the set. So it is not as strong as the tool the technician will use. But it may clear the screen over time.

You should know all this applies to CRT or TUBE sets only or older projection sets that used TUBES for the screen.

Some people say you can move the magnet around and undo the damage but I prefer the degaussing coil as it works all the time and works in a consistent manner.

Answer 3

Your TV has a degaussing coil (demagnetizing coil) built into it that will take care of minor problems. The trick is that the coil usually only works for the first minute when the TV is turned on from a "cold" start. The TV has to be shut off for about 30 minutes to cool down enough for this to work.

If doing a cold start a bunch of times doesn't do the job, you need to use a external degaussing coil or pay a repair shop to do it for you. You would probably have to order one through the mail.

I've linked to the cheapest coil I could find (that I would use on my TV!).

If you do this yourself, be sure to read the directions.

Make sure that there is no magnet media anywhere close to the coil when you turn it on as it will damage the information on these. Magnetic media includes computer hard drives, credit cards, VCR tapes, and audio tapes. DVRs, TIVOs, and some music players contain computer hard drives.

Answer 4

Tube set use magnetic deflection. Take the magnet away is will end up ruining the set. You need a degaussing coil to correct the color problems. LCD's don't have that problem

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I remember in fourth grade our teacher telling us not to put a magnet to the television. Since your daughter's only 5, we'll cut her some slack.

Answer 7

It could, you would just need to have a TV tech
degause it again. broadcast engineer just pretty much gave you the long winded advice the rest of us just gave you and have the set degaused pronounced ( De-gow-zd )

Answer 8

yeahhh. magnets screw up stuff like that. i dont think it can be fixed.