Lines on the video

SOURCE: A horizontal or vertical red line appears on picture.

Red lines are caused by glare. Avoid photographing shiny surfaces that reflect excessive amounts of light into your lens.

SOURCE: Camara won't take pictures, screen shots look black and white blurry

Hello, please try to reset the camera and check your settings according the user manual. If you need more info please advice. Arpi

SOURCE: Vertical lines in screen / Blurry pictures

Hi there, please check this link: http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html Sony will repair your camera free of charge. Best regards, Arpi

Widespread CCD problems in consumer imaging products

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SOURCE: overexposed photos in otherwise normal settings in casio ex-s500

It is the shutter (or at least it was for me) I found a simple test here: http://www.mydc.com.tw/repair/knowledge_en/casio-exilim-ex-s600-overexposure-t17.html
I repaired it myself, but it took me a whole afternoon and lots of patience.
The hard part is taking the camera apart, once I got to the shutter I just activated it manually so to dislodge any pieces that might have gotten jammed, then placed it back together again and it worked! :).
It's really hard to take apart, it's like a puzzle sometimes, to find which screws are keeping it together. I also had a bit of hard time when it came to put the zoom back together again.
But I guess it beats throwing the camera away.
I'm still puzzled on how the CCD works so that an overexposure would make horizontal overexposed lines, but everything points to that. Fixed shutter, lines be gone.

SOURCE: PICTURES ARE PINK WITH HORIZONTAL LINES EXCEPT IN RECORDING MODE!

It's a known problem. Canon is stepping up and repairing them regardless of warranty state. There is an 800-number and an email link. See the Service Notice: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=PgComSmModDisplayAct&fcategoryid=225&modelid=13390&keycode=2112&id=29819