SONY WEGA and component video .........

get the avia DVD and calibrate your sharpness and color levels. ALWAYS choose component video when you can.turn off all video enhancements on your TV. Sony TVs tend to over push reds to make people look tan.

Tim...You can't adjust the sharpness level from the DVD player, that is one of the step-up features on the DVPS560 (its called the Digital Video Enhancer & the Video Equalizer)...at least I'm pretty sure--to find out, hit the "display" button on the dvd remote & you'll get a menu down the side of the TV. Hit the display button again, and the last two choices at the bottom are video EQ & DVE( if the player has them). Assuming you don't have that feature package on the dvd, go to the TV & adjust the "picture mode". It's possible you have it set to "sports" mode which dramatically cranks the contrast, color & brightness to a level which is unnatural and quite overcooked. Instead, set it to "standard" or even "movie (cinema?)" mode--which makes it alot easier on the eyes, and may smooth out those rough edges. Last but not least, if you've tried all else, simply tone down the sharpness a bit, and the contrast settings, and that should ease your troubles to a certain extent. Actually, there IS one more thing...dump the Panamax in favor of a "Monster Power" center by Monster Cable. Take it from an insider (my company has sold both), it blows away the Panamax, especially when it comes to line conditioning. The panamax is a fair surge protector, but not much else..whereas the monster does a MUCH better job smoothing out the inconsistent flow of voltage coming thru your A/C, and can significantly reduce video noise. The line conditioning feature starts at the $79 model, but the higher end models do a better job. BY THE WAY, EVERYONE...IT'S "VEGA" NOT WEGA!!! (the inadvertent "W" in the name is created on the packaging by putting an offset shadow behind the V...but sure enough, it IS Vega!!!). Cheers...

Anyone else but me have a problem with the geometry on the W(v)ega sets. Keep wanting to like them, cause of detail and almost 3d effect, even in SDTV, but they always look concave. Even after watching a while, I can't shake it. Never seen one outside of a store, but thats how they all look to me. Not trying to trash anyone's TV; I still havent gotten my Loewe to look right on cable (but a good sat or DVD is incredible). Just my .02.

After much messing around with tv and dvd..and almost a month of being "frozen" by my MSN.com (my thorn in the side) internet service provider....
Finally I can write something. Guess what? My tv came down with a bad regulator according to a repair tech! What this means is that the picture was starting to bow in at the right/sometimes left side causing geometry problems with letterbox dvds and wierd color variances on the right hand side edge of the picture. Also it was "breathing" not able to fully push the picture to the sides of the screen thus leaving gaps between picture and the mat around the screen. Black scenes showed this ugly problem all too well. I went to my local electronics store and exchanged it for a same model new one. (It took a month to get an exact replacement). While I was there I saw a store demo (same model) suffering from an advanced case of this. I'm hesitant to blame my power outlet because not much is plugged in in that room with tv.
My new tv is holing out but it too shows signs at the sides of picture small gaps and the right corner at top is not always getting all the signal it needs to show all the picture. Is anyone in this same boat?
I hope all the Sony "V"egas (thanks) out there don't wind up duds.
Anyone know if those power conditioners/voltage correctors/reserve storage things would work?
I hate to think I wasted so much money and may need to spend more to maybe fix this. Maybe the whole factory run of these are defective? I'm not sure but I know I'm more than my 30 days as far as the return policy. I did manage some sense...bought a 4 year extended warranty!

Timmy, I work extensively on sony products on a daily basis and am a factory trained CET. You set is not a progressive scan unit, so if your DVD is progressive, we have a compatability problem. The regulator problem sounds very familiar, Hmmm? While attending a Sony seminar, we were faced with the geometry problem that the Vega tubes often suffer, the best we got was acceptable at best to the average consumer, certainly not to someone who knows whats going on. The units often exhibit smearing on the sides due the beam becoming elliptical at that point of the geometry. I feel that this probably going to be Sony's downfall ( as do some at Sony). I agree that the units look concave as Swampwalker states, I noticed thia anomoly after the addition of the new yoke and quadropole magnet assembly. I think that the new focus assembly overcompensates in the corners and as a result the rest of the screen looks out of focus in relation to the corners, giving the illusion of concavity. To get to the HDTV problems that are arrising. Most complaints that I get is that the pix has a fuzzy characteristic to it, kind of like a soft focus (i.e moonlighting with Sybil Shepard). This is the result of the up conversion that takes place in the video processing of the unit. You are asking a 480i signal to look like 480p or more. This requires the horizontil scanning frequency to be doubled from 15.735hz. trust me these are not line doublers that compare to let's say Faroudja that cost $10,000.00 plus. I saw the same faults with the RCA proscan line around 8 years ago when Proscan meant progressive scan in the RCA lingo. The problem isn't solved yet. For now I'm sticking with my Sony Kv32xbr96s
that I bought about 6 years ago, it dosen't have the Y, PR< PB inputs but I'l suffer with my georgeous picture through the S input.