Sony: No Plan To Fix PSP 3000 Problem

Complaints about scan lines on Sony’s PSP-3000 portable console might not be able to be fixed, according to the company.

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One of the changes of the PSP 3000 compared to its previous incarnation is its new LCD screen, which offers an increased colour range, higher contrast ratio and improved pixel response time, to address previous complaints about image ghosting. However, this change appears to have come at a cost, with many users complaining about visible horizontal scan lines on some games.

“On some occasions, scan lines may appear on scenes where brightness changes drastically, due to the hardware features of the new LCD,” said an unnamed Sony Computer Entertainment America Spokesman on the PSP Fanboy website. “[These scan lines] have come out to be more visible as a result of improving response time to alleviate the afterimages on PSP-3000. Since this is due to hardware specification, there are no plans for a system software update concerning this issue.”