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[Satanier]

Aside from the small green tube focus issue and black crush and slight wear pattern that I'm ignoring, I'm quite happy with my projector. Except one problem that's driving me INSANE and cannot be ignored like the others.


On the left side of the image, running up vertically there is a squiggly-ish type distortion of the image, and everywhere in the image where there is a hard vertical line, slightly to the right of it is this "ghostly" "clear" squiggly vertical line following the contour of it. It's really only visible in the image during scenes with a lot of white, or light colors. On the left I always notice it. What is this? And how do I stop it?




One other thing that's unrelated:: I get giant halos, i.e. a white planet in a black space scene projects a halo a few feet wide on my screen, is this normal?

[kschmit2]

sounds like ghosting (source-related)
Better cables may help, or a better source (e.g. some video cards have lots of ghosting, others not so much).

[Jesse S]

The halos are unavoidable with an air-coupled unit. Liquid coupling eliminates the ring and greatly improves contrast in such scenes. Rather than the obvious halo you get just the slightest bit of light bleed from the source area to the surrounding black area.