Sony is stupid and most likely, will always be

The so-called scanline "post-nuclear" crisis is starting to irritate me... I got an EUR PSP-3000 and the s.c.a.n.l.i.n.e.s don't bother as much as internet sites claim it is... When I first read this articles I though it really was bad... but c'mon... I played Crisis Core, FFT: WotL, Lumines, Valkyrie Profile, and Ape Quest and the scanlines are BARELY noticeable IF AT ALL... Even FIFA 09, which is a fast paced game doesn't have big problems with that (but sometimes they appear though rarely)... Watching Anime is awesome with no problems and the only place i DO see them is the XMB... So stop with that crucification of Sony... Don't like it, don't buy it... Buy stop sensacionallist ic journalism, will ya?



BTW: http://exophase.com/psp/psp-3000-review-8540.htm here's for a true review of the psp-3000

Wrong. The GBA SP (I just tested mine now, black European SP) has a low refresh rate, which was only noticeable if you subject it to vibration. The GBA had it too but there was a small screw hidden just under the sticker on the back that altered the flicker.

After viewing a PSP-3000 it's a very noticeable problem that occurs under any situation.



Btw, you meant "couldn't care less". By saying you could care less means you actually do care about the issue at hand. And that was todays English lesson.

trust me... go on a game that has about 50 save slots. Scroll down really fast and look up close. you'll see small scan lines along with the ghost effect. I'm not sure if these are scan lines but... whatever.



btw.... any idea why some games have tons of dots on them like small pixels with a diamond cut around them? It seems to show up on certain colors.

scanlines are an artifact of the past, when television screens weren't fast enough.

They shouldn't appear on new hardware, especially at that price, and when it's the 3rd revision of a product. If it doesn't bother you, good for you. There are people who cannot watch a movie on that screen without puking.

I agree it is not a big deal for games because you focus more on the action than on the graphics themselves, but when watching non-interactive sequences or movies, it is disgusting.

like i always say: sony can kiss my @$$.

they are always trying to get over on the consumer.

lol, Japan will NEVER forgive the U.S. for dropping the bomb on them.

that's why they sell us all this garbage: to make sure sure our kids MINDS are gone.

The OED recognizes “could care less” as an American colloquialism.



Paul Brians, English professor at Washington State University says "the problem is that as [a new idiom] evolves, you get caught as a user between people who are going with the new pattern and those who know the old pattern and are comfortable with it."



The matter is complicated by both the intention of the speaker and the inference of the listener. For all you know the speaker could be speaking literally rather than idiomatically, being a grammar bug is a rude and pointless thing to be, sooner or later you will fall on your own sword (after all I’m guessing you meant to say "today's English lesson" not "todays") , or start preaching with total conviction on a matter that is in fact still up for debate among genuine academics.



Nobody said English is finished and complete, like anything organic it is still in a process of evolution, so there’s no point being a snob about it. I’m British so I think “couldn’t care less” sounds better and “could care less” sounds weird, but that’s my opinion, not a fact and therefore not worth bothering people with.



I'm sure ilovepsp meant to say "you're missing the point" and not "your", so why pick on one persons mistake and not another’s?









um... psp 3000 blah!

Shut the F up all complaining geez get alive....

Can u build a freaking PSP or PS3 hah...no...shut up then geez...

When TVs needed to be bigger in size, and the cost of the cathode ray tubes were too expensive for the average consumer and raised in demand -- bare with me -- they made TVs only draw half the pixels, this is called interlacing... what the Wii and everything before it has.



Interlacing made is so that every other horizontal line on the CRT TVs wereblack lines... SCANLINES...



The problem with the PSP shouldn't be called scanlines because that implies that the PSP doesn't draw what you can't see- and that is doubtful since that would save a lot of power and also, LCDs can not have real scanlines.



Please, would people call it something else.

@raggedjimmi- REEEEEEAAAAALLY YYHEHEHE Correct that comment *****! Why dont you go and suck a horse or something.

wassup ass waffle

No worries :)



Plus that's regarded as a trapezium effect. It happens whenever there's a gap between the screen and a frontlight. My modded GBA with a frontlight does the same thing, just that it's less obvious with the SP (yea the GBA effect was that bad) because the gap is smaller.

Everything is fixed with backlight.

Everything is better fixed with LED screens.



Shame on everyone for not making handheld consoles with LED screens.

If this was ment as a joke, it was pretty funny. And if anyone wants to start making fun of the english language, think hard about everything you say. Most of what we say only makes sense because we have been saying it for years. Tell someone just learning english to go drove down the parkway and then park in the drive way. Then tell them to get you a pair of socks and a pair of sissors and see how many sissors they bring you...english is great!

You missed out the apostorphy in "today's"

lol I was only a joke anyway, I guess Google's spell checker let me down again :(

I can ! From an old iPod (2nd gen), a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle, a fake moustache and a flock of hair from Angelina Jolie`s armpit.



PS: I`ll take the flock of hair for my own personal usage thank you very much. And no, I`m not sharing it.