New camera--about 1000 shots so far. just noticed that the tv screen on the camera (when i'm reviewing photos) flashes between white objects being white and then black--about 1 second of white and 1 second of black, then back and forth. please help

Try to hold the camera more properly. Disable flash if enough light is there. Hold on the capture button for a while and dont move the camera until the captured image is shown on the screen for review.

Instead of shutter priority "Tv" mode, try setting to program "P" mode instead. Also, turn off the flash, and set to macro if shooting close-in (press downward on the little flower icon on the back disk). If pictures come out blurry, try using a tripod to hold the camera steady, or set the camera down on an object so it doesn't move while taking the shot. Try using the timer to activate the shutter to allow the camera to remain even steadier for the shot.

I have the same problem with my camera. Olympus tech says the lens needs to be replaced at $185+ and it's 18 months old with little use. Not happy, not worth it. Don't buy this camera.

Its problem of ccd imager in your DSC-T1 camera and that part will be replaced.
Sony announced free of cost repair for subject problem. Click Sony CCD Support for details.

try to adjust resolution. flash, active mode might have been turned on.buttons are sensitive too. if it doesnt work you might have damaged internal drive or fried some connections inside.

Two things:

1.Digital cameras do not do well in low light, unless you want to spend $750 and carry around a bulky camera. The smaller and thinner the digital camera, the less you can expect high IQ(Image Quality) in certain types of conditions; low light, moving objects, long zoomed shots when camera has no IS(Image Stabilization), and long flash shots(Flash is only good to about 10Feet.

2.Your cameras display is small compared to a computers display, so the picture will look better on the camera because you cannot see the detail(pixels) as well as a much larger computer display. If you limit your prints to standard 3X5 or 4X6 or 5X7 view, then you will get a better idea if they are worth keeping for printing in these sizes later.

Read digital photo forums and start with your manual under Taking Pictures, or such, to learn about digital photography and how to live with limitations.

I think you will find the advantages far outweigh the limitations.

Vertical light in the frame was the equalize the brightness of the frame to shoot 2 , 3 sometime 1 time for shooting object /don't shoot 2 or three frame very dark result.

Need a bit more info -

Can you see them menu's on the screen or the image in the LCD before you take the photos?

Try putting the memory card into a computer and review the photos.
Do they look the same on the computer as they do the screen?
If they look the same on a computer screen as they do on the camera's LCD screen you have a bad CCD.

If you see the image you should see you can have anything from a loose cable to a bad LCD screen in the camera.

Please try with the new memory stick. Regards, Arpi

In very simple terms you simply didn't have enough aperture and sensor sensitivity to get the same exposure in the camera as you got with your eyes. The blurring was caused by camera movement while the shutter was open, hand held anything over about 1/15th of a second will be unusable at your shortest focal length. Night photos are hard as they require maximum aperture to let in enough light, and maximum aperture means minimum depth of field so if you are close to the subject it is hard to get all of it in focus. You can increase the ISO setting, but that introduces noise into the shot. As you noticed using flash completely destroys the interesting lighting you were trying to capture. With a proper external flash you would have got a shot as though it were daytime, with a small inbuilt flash you just forced the camera to take a short exposure with a small aperture without adding enough flash light to get the exposure, hence the black picture. As it was a static subject you could have tried a long exposure with the camera on a trpod, possibly using the self timer to start the shot so that you did not touch the camera at all. Another area to take care with is colour/white balance. Your eyes are very good at adjusting for any colour cast or hue in the illumination. You will notice that a sheet of white paper looks white to you inside under normal lights, or inside under flourescent lighting, or outside in daylight . You will find that your camera has to be preset for the colour/temperature of the illumination, to get this right you need to know the spec of the flood lights (halogen, tungsten etc) as it is unlikely the automatic white balance will get this right, being less sophisticated than the human eye/brain combination . You can of course adjust the white balance in who editing software. I hope this helps....