sharpness ghosting?
 

Hi this is probably a silly question but, only on electronically tuned sets have I noticed the following fault: With sharpness(or peaking) at halfway and a normal strong signal, these sets display text and finely-edged objects with a slight ghost as if the tuner is out of align. but it never is. Only at about 25% sharpn. will the text look normal...otherwise pix seems unaffected. Anyone?

I seem to recall reading some where that the sharpness setting lets you compensate for poor pics, so if you have a normal pic, then you can over do it (too much gain) and end up with a ring. Bottom line is if you can adj to a good pic then its working.

The content today is to high res and high contrast for these old sets. Most of my sets have issues like that, even the new old stock ones.

I see. Certainly makes sense. I once saw an article equating the sharpness level to the treble level on an audio preamp..the higher the sharpn, the higher the 'treble' or , more appropriately, the higher the video hi-frequency content.