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imthemaid
03-06-2012, 03:00 PM
What are those ghost images that show up whenever there's a dark object somewhere on the screen? For example, in Mario Land the vertical pillars that hold up the platforms are usually "ghosted" above the platform, and extend to the top of the screen.

kedawa
03-06-2012, 07:59 PM
I think it has something to do with having so many pixels darkened in one column, which bleeds into other pixels in that column.
The old LCD matrix technology had a lot of shortcomings, and I think what you are describing is just the result of the voltage applied to some pixels having an effect on the rest of that column/row.