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What does a green dot in the video I shoot mean?

by Esazi Jun 24, 2009 10:35AM PDT

I have a friend who has a Panasonic camcorder, it's pretty cheap (about $600 two years ago), and kinda old (probably about 2-3 years). He showed me a video he filmed, and he said it's in all of his videos, and there was a green dot in it. This is something new that wasn't happening about a month ago. The green dot is there a lot of the time, although it sporadically comes and goes, and he and I have no idea what it is. The dot appears to be in the same spot, even when he moves it around.
He didn't mention that there were any broken pixels in the LCD itself, which makes me assume that it's broken from the inside out.
Any ideas or suggestions? I'm curious about it and he is baffled. Thanks for any help.

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is it in the video, or the lcd?

by chickenorfish Jun 24, 2009 12:10PM PDT

is it in the video, or the lcd? if its only on the lcd, thats normal and nothing to worry about

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It's in the video

by Esazi Jun 25, 2009 10:40AM PDT

He showed me a video he made and the green dot was in there. I didn't get a chance to look at the LCD, but he didn't mention anything so I am assuming that the LCD is fine.

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