I have the exact same problem.
I hoped I could provide additional information but everything has been covered already.
Indeed anything 60hz (except vga, which works fine with 60 hz) produces a blue ghosting image.
I have tested this with everything:
SCART RGB
SCART composite
Component
video in (on the side of the set)
HDMI
The only thing I am unable to check is the S-video, but I take it it also displays the blue ghost
Called Sony and I talked to a guy at Sony. He might be coming over on friday.
He said he has a firmware update that fixes the 60 Hz problem. I hope he will be able to fix it with that. I told him about the optical block and he said that that might no be the cause of it.
He said the optical block is the part that devides the colors.
I will let you guys know about this, how it goes.
Great thread, thanks to all those that participated.
I play my DC via VGA and it plays fine, but the VGA port is obviously not made for gaming. For games that run 60 FPS. There are loads of strange side effects like the set is not able to keep up with the VGA source. Really strange even when I set it on the smallest resolution 640 X 480. he set is still sstruglling. I bet the Component and HDMI ones are the ones to be used for gaming.
One tip though for switching channels etc.
You can press the OK button and you get a pop up with channels that can be selected but you can also press left or right and this switches between tv and av channels. In this way you can set the set back to 50 hz quickly.
Later guys, Oh yeah I'm new here, great forum and good members
EDIT:
Any other things you guys want me to ask or he should look at?
EDIT:
They just called me and they'll be coming over on this monday the 27th.
So till then.
The guy informed me that they had to fix this problem for X-Box owners.
Probably because more Xbox games support 60 hz modes.
It is a firmware upgrade.
I will look for anything weird after effects when they fix it.
Now it becomes apparent why few Ps2 games have this option