[AiboPet]

You are right

I just now tried to take a pic of the little Sony S8-301W.....next to a Sony ERS7M3, and my little JVC Everio that actually takes pretty good pics, had to have the shutter speed slowed WAY down, the ambient light mostly blocked.....AND the brightness on the Sony TV turned way down, just to get this pretty sorry looking pic.

This thread made me curious, because I have had this sort of thing happen with trying to take a pic of ANY tv set....and most computer screens too.

Please don't mind the state of dissasembly of the Sony 301. it's in the very middle of a recapping (which is now to the point of "pretty good...but still REAL fussy"). And this is a static image from an Archos AV700 going into my little 50mw HLLY "Villa" TV transmitter. The Sony is tuned to "just above channel 13" where I have my "pirate station" playing vintage commercials and TV sorta 24/7.

The last pic is what right now passes for a crosshatch on this set right now. Still can't put any white test patterns on it though. The top of anything bright tears to the right REAL bad still.