Canon PowerShot S500 IXUS 500 Digital Camera "purple line across screen" Questions

...purple lines across whole screen cant take a pic. When i turn on the camera there are purple lines across the screen and when i take a picture the purple lines show up so no pictures are taking. ...

...to a part of the stage that has a stage light end up with a vertical line across the entire frame. It's usually purple in color but changes color and kind of jiggles. Problems with the ccd

...purple lines appear across the screen. I still see these red and purple lines when I download the pictures also. Canon support have told me this sounds like a common problem. Does anyone know of this ...

...purple and distorted, with a horizontal line across it that moves up and down vertically. Oddly, the camera can take photos just fine, and the photos appear normally when reviewing the images in ...

...purple and white lines go across screen imagery This sounds like it might be a defective CCD imager. If so, Canon should fix this for you for free, including free shipping both ways. This is ...

...across the bottom with purple horizontal lines across the top. Help! This sounds like it might be a defective CCD imager. If so, Canon should fix this for you for free worldwide, and may also include ...

...purple and have lines across them cause the screen wigs out. plz help? LilLette, Sorry to say that this sounds like failure of the camera's CCD imager. This is not something that you can repair ...

...purple horizontal lines across my screen when i try to take a picture. When i snap the picture that is all i get. The memory card seems to be fine in that all the pix stored on it look fine when i ...

...line it is purple and when i try to take a picture the things look green. Can anyone tell me what to do please? Thanks Gladys It appears that the image sensor (CCD) has stopped functioning. There is ...

There is no picture review, has purple lines across screen, like northern lights... Seems like lens issue...? CCD damaged. Replace the CCD & use the camera like before.