Well this is kinda annoying/disturning thing I got to see today. A couple of friends of mine, brothers, have just bought PSP's about a week ago. Today I stopped by to hang out with them for a little bit, to get in my first and last multiplayer game of Ridge Racer before going off to the post office to ship my PSP out to the person I have just sold it to 
Anyways, long story short, I noticed that the screens on their PSPs, the both of them, are uniformly VERY noticeably dimmer than the screen on my PSP. Mine was one from the first batch, bought just before Xmas, and they just got theirs last week, they were told it was from a batch shipped Jan 20th. Well on first glance theirs seem a little better built than mine did... their UMD trays close fully, and neither had any dead pixels. They did both have R and Circle buttons that would get stuck down though (mine only had the R button problem). But then I was trying to set them all to the same brightness, and noticed that when I set mine to the first (of three) brightness settings (darkest setting), I had to set each of theirs to the second brightness setting to match the brightness of mine. The coversation came up when discussing battery life and I stated that I usually played most games except for the very dark Metal Gear Acid, on the first setting, to get the most out of the battery. And their response was that, to them, the first setting seemed pretty much useless. Indeed, I popped Golf into one of their units (a very bright game) and found that on the first setting it was, as they said, almost useless... very dim... looked like I was playing a round on a rainy day. I've NEVER had problems playing Golf on the first setting on mine even outside in the daytime.
now, I dont know if I was just lucky, or they are just unlucky, but I do remember reading something, on ebay I think when I was just checking the scene, someone mentioned that newer units were coming with an LCD made by a different manufacturer (sound familiar???), and that picture quality would be worse... it was a sales pitch trying to convince prospective buyers why they should purchase an import system as opposed to waiting for a US system, as supposedly the US systems will all have this worse LCD. Well I must say, the picture quality of the three seemed identical, even when in motion, just that their two were so much dimmer than mine.
this... friggin... sux
Now I have to worry that my US one is gonna have this problem?? I HOPE this is just some kinda fluke. *sigh* right about now I'm joining in with the I hate f'ing Sony crowd......
Anyways, long story short, I noticed that the screens on their PSPs, the both of them, are uniformly VERY noticeably dimmer than the screen on my PSP. Mine was one from the first batch, bought just before Xmas, and they just got theirs last week, they were told it was from a batch shipped Jan 20th. Well on first glance theirs seem a little better built than mine did... their UMD trays close fully, and neither had any dead pixels. They did both have R and Circle buttons that would get stuck down though (mine only had the R button problem). But then I was trying to set them all to the same brightness, and noticed that when I set mine to the first (of three) brightness settings (darkest setting), I had to set each of theirs to the second brightness setting to match the brightness of mine. The coversation came up when discussing battery life and I stated that I usually played most games except for the very dark Metal Gear Acid, on the first setting, to get the most out of the battery. And their response was that, to them, the first setting seemed pretty much useless. Indeed, I popped Golf into one of their units (a very bright game) and found that on the first setting it was, as they said, almost useless... very dim... looked like I was playing a round on a rainy day. I've NEVER had problems playing Golf on the first setting on mine even outside in the daytime.
now, I dont know if I was just lucky, or they are just unlucky, but I do remember reading something, on ebay I think when I was just checking the scene, someone mentioned that newer units were coming with an LCD made by a different manufacturer (sound familiar???), and that picture quality would be worse... it was a sales pitch trying to convince prospective buyers why they should purchase an import system as opposed to waiting for a US system, as supposedly the US systems will all have this worse LCD. Well I must say, the picture quality of the three seemed identical, even when in motion, just that their two were so much dimmer than mine.
this... friggin... sux
Now I have to worry that my US one is gonna have this problem?? I HOPE this is just some kinda fluke. *sigh* right about now I'm joining in with the I hate f'ing Sony crowd......
