Has anyone else noticed this?

Open up text edit, fill every other line with the $ character (leave a blank line between every line of characters). Then make the text bold and underline it (this makes the contrast between the text and background greater). Finally change the background to "kelp" or one of the darker gray colors and move the text editor around the screen. The contrast between the text and white text editor background makes this issue VERY pronounced. Who else has a MBP suffering from this issue, and if you don't please post your build week and screen model.
Thanks,
Rob

Yes, I didn't really mention what the issue itself was, but tekjansen hit it on the head. It's these translucent lines of alternating dark and light contrast which extend from the left and right of the open application window to the left and right hand extents of the screen. I did some research on "cross talk" and it may be the issue. In this case it would mean that when current is flowing to the pixels within the text editor (or iTunes, whatever) that the intervening pixels between the corner of the screen and the application window aren't entirely off, but rather are ever-so-partially on. Thus their current mirrors the current flowing to the pixels in the application window thus resulting in these "ghost lines". I guess it could be a video card thing, or an LCD thing, or even a software thing. I just wanna figure out what exactly it is and if apple intends to fix it.

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    On Friday 17th Feb I get an advanced DD notice from Virgin. I am expecting this to be the final bill including the £44 penalty fee. It says they’re taking £30.35 beginning of March. Er….what? I phone them to have the bill deciphered. At the same time I wish to check that I am all cancelled with them. I find out that the phone is cancelled but the Broadband hasn’t been. Honestly I can’t believe this. I demand to know why this is when I’ve been using Infinity for the last week. They blame BT and say BT used the MAC code incorrectly. I immediately cancel it as they confirm I’m still paying for Virgin Broadband. Two advisors are unable to explain the bill to me. I am finally put through to what I presume is the finance section and I speak to ‘Joanne’. She seems to have a brain and is helpful. I need to know how much I need to pay to settle everything, including any penalty fees. I really want rid of Virgin. Joanne tells me that all I owe is £6.96. I query this as that makes even less sense than the first bill. She says that is all that is outstanding on my account. I presume my cancellation has gone through on their system and that is all I owe. I am not going to argue anymore. I pay the £6.96 (payment reference 020835) there and then and I ask Joanne can I now delete the direct debit from my bills account? I know how these things will go and I do not want Virgin taking money from my bills account without explaining anything. Joanne agrees that I can delete the direct debit as I have no outstanding amount on my account. Ok then…I delete the direct debit. As of 02/03/2012 as I write this I have not heard anything more from Virgin.
    Back to BT. Having got off the phone from Virgin I bite the bullet and decide to phone BT as well because a) there is no 1571 service on my phone b) there is no caller ID and c) I can’t login to their swanky online system – laughably it says my username, which they have repeatedly sent me in their emails for three weeks, is not recognised. I get through to an Indian call centre and explain these three issues. They are quite helpful and I can mostly understand what they’re saying. The guy says they will activate both phone services immediately – I can’t be bothered to ask why they weren’t already active? He has to transfer me to someone else for the online thing. He transfers me and to cut a long story and lots of waiting with god awful standby music – they can’t sort it out that day as there is some inexplicable software issue and can I call back another time. Ok I’ll let them off – just make sure my phone service is fully operational.
    I subsequently get two emails from BT telling me the 1571 and caller ID will be active by 20th Feb in 3 days time.
    Note that date of 20th Feb. That was the date that was referred to when they’d cancelled my 7th Feb original engineer visit. I have a strong feeling that all this is due to them changing that original engineer visit.
    Note as of 02/03/2012 caller ID doesn’t work on my phone and I am still unable to login to online BT. They did activate 1571 though. I suppose I should be grateful.
    It is now 24/03/2012. I have spent the time putting up with no caller ID. I have just realised today I had to register with MyBT on the website which I have now done, but I’m still not sure if this is correct given that they sent me a username and password previously which didn’t work when I tried to login. Anyway I have set it up but still can’t view my bill. Perhaps that will clear. I did buy a BT phone, yet another **bleep** phone, 4th in two years, in the hope that it would miraculously fix my phone fault caller ID but to no avail. It still doesn’t work. I have just phoned BT India again and done all the steps over the phone with the guy, who can’t see a fault on the line when he’s tested it. He has handed it over to the engineers with a promise that it will be fixed by 29th. I won’t hold my breath. If it isn’t fixed it will be a matter of a huge complaint letter. Update: on the evening of the 24th I received a text and email to say it had been fixed. But it hasn’t. It still doesn’t work. Oh BT how you play with my nerdy heart promising simple things and utterly failing to deliver!
    01/04/2012: PhoningIndiaabout the caller ID again. Its April Fools I have to try for a third time don’t I? Right so the lady I spoke to didn’t make me go through all the checks from her script, which I appreciated. To be honest I didn’t give her a chance – I began the call and didn’t stop talking and said:
    I didn’t want to dial the #234# thing
    I didn’t want to try another phone
    I didn’t want to do a line test
    I couldn’t see any alternative other than an engineer visit
    She went off to speak to her supervisor and said she’d call me back. Amusingly, while I was waiting for her to call back I received a call from BT India asking me to rate the efficiency and politeness of the woman I just spoke to. I refused to do this pending the outcome of my problem. Come on BT don’t ask me to give positive feedback when this problem has been going on for two months. Anyway the original lady called me back finally and said her supervisor was escalating the problem to 2nd tier support and they would have it fixed in three days and she would again call me back to make sure everything was ok. I am not holding my breath and there was no mention of arranging an engineer visit. We shall see what transpires.
    It is now 10/04/2012. I have never received the call back. I did receive a text and an email to say my fault had been fixed. But of course it hasn’t been fixed. Amusingly, at the bottom of the last email there was this statement – “Please note: we'll provide a working service up to and including the main socket in your house. If your problem isn't with your BT service, you might need to pay a £130.00 repair charge. So it's worth checking your own equipment before the visit and cancelling the visit if you fix things”. So it’s my fault? Before I call back again I am going to post on the BT help forums and see if anyone else has had this problem. 

    Hi AP_In_Surbiton,
    I am really sorry that you have had so much trouble getting your Caller ID up and going.  I'll be happy to help you out with this and get it working for you.
    Could you drop me in an email please? Use the 'contact us' form in my forum profile under the 'about me' section. You can find it by clicking on my username.
    Thx
    Craig
    BTCare Community Mod
    If we have asked you to email us with your details, please make sure you are logged in to the forum, otherwise you will not be able to see our ‘Contact Us’ link within our profiles.
    We are sorry but we are unable to deal with service/account queries via the private message(PM) function so please don't PM your account info, we need to deal with this via our email account :-)”
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