Potioncat's TV screen Was:Richard III - An Assessment by Horace Walpole

[Carol]

> Potioncat:
> For some reason the screen is very dark. It's not the monitor, it's 
> the computer. Perhaps it could be fixed, I don't know.
> 
> I can see the picture of Richard holding the crown well enough to 
> know what it is. Those that are bright are OK, anything that is dim 
> or dark is very difficult to see. 

Carol responds:
It sounds like a problem with your settings. Are you sure it's not the
monitor? Check the buttons on the front. If there's not one for
Contrast or something similar, or if there are just little icons whose
meaning you don't know, just push them to see what they do. On mine,
you push "Enter" to get to the settings. Strange, I know, but tech
people don't seem to think like ordinary mortals. (Which reminds me of
Audrey Williamson's remark about male historians, who think that
Elizabeth Woodville could have come to terms with the murderer of her
sons.)

BTW, I found that description by Erasmus of Sir Thomas More's having
one shoulder higher than the other if you're interested:

"The right shoulder is a little higher than the left, especially when
he walks. This is not a defect of birth, but the result of habit, such
as we often contract. In the rest of his person there is nothing to
offend. His hands are the least refined part of his body."

http://home.netcom.com/~rjs474/thomasmore/1519lett.html

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Carol, who is pretty sure that your problem with dark images can be
easily solved