Sony investigating PSP Brite screen issues

[wraggster]

Over on the official PlayStation forums, owners of Sony's revamped PSP Brite are in a tizzy over what many have reported as prominent screen interlacing during video playback and gameplay. The PSP-3000 uses a new high-contrast, low-latency screen that eliminates the ghosting/smearing associated with older PSP revisions, but appears to introduce a new issue of visible scanlines and notably jagged edges on moving objects. One poster provided comparison photos that illustrate the problem.

We unboxed our PSP Brite to test some games and see if we encountered the same problem. Sure enough, in both FMV and gameplay, there is a noticable offset between the two video fields comprising the on-screen image. The included Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters looks significantly more "pixelated" on the PSP-3000 versus on our PSP-2000, as did other games we tested, including God of War: Chains of Olympus and WipEout Pulse. Additionally, scanlines are visible simply when navigating the unit's XMB.

The problem is slightly less noticable when the new Wide Color Space option is turned off. We contacted SCEA for comment on this apparent hardware issue and were told that the company is "looking into this" and will get back to us as soon as possible. We'll update this post when we hear more. In the meantime, let us know in comments if you're experiencing similar issues with the PSP Brite.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/20/sony-investigating-psp-brite-screen-issues/

[iniquitous_beast]

I've commented on this in another thread, but even though the scanlines are very visible, they are still less annoying than the ghosting was on my psp-1001. Personally, I still consider my psp-3001 to have the better picture. Kind of foolish of Sony to have missed this issue during product testing, especially on the single most-advertised aspect of its new system.

[mike_jmg]

Lol

[Veskgar]

This sounds like an unbelievable and inexcusable failure on SONY's part. The screen has always been the PSP's most bragged about feature in marketing. Especially with this new PSP.

This news makes me think twice about maybe getting a 3000.

[Buddy4point0]

Haha, sony really blew that one.
The new amazing PSP 3000 screen looks terrible because of scanlines. It's so funny that sony would hype up the new screen to be so awesome and then screw up this bad.

Hopefully they fix the issue and get everyone with the issue a new screen or a way to fix it.

[AdamRav]

Wouldnt they have to recall all the PSP Brites so that they could repair them and send them off again???

[paul3100]

Wouldnt they have to recall all the PSP Brites so that they could repair them and send them off again???

I wouldn't say they " HAD TOO " recall them as they are not broken just not a very good screen, But in the interest of sony it would be wise to offer all 300 owners something.

paul