The ghosting problem I noticed on the Samsung 712N is around the text. Every letter has a white outline making it look engraved, it's very annoyong and hard on the eyes. I've never seen this on any LCD made by other manufacturers. I exchanged mine thinking it was probably a defect, but the second one was exactly the same! I tried changing the refresh rate from 60 to 75 and auto callibrated the monitor each time but the ghosting doesn't go away unless you manually adjust the sharpness option and when the ghosting is finally gone the text is blurry. If this is the best Samsung can do I'm through with their LCD's.