Panasonic DMR-EH50 - Component Output

[jeallen01]

Hi Folks

I have a problem - has anyone experienced any artifacts or "line tearing" when using the Component Output?

This happened last night when viewing programmes fed from my Pace 3100 Sky+ box via the RGB AV2 input of my Panasonic DMR-EH50 DVD recorder which then provided as the Component Input to the Toshiba 32WLT58 LCD TV

The picture was fine on normal programme material. However, when there were large areas of high luminace (especially of white and light colours) then full scan lines were lost, and a series of horizontal black bars appeared/disappeared quickly all down the righthand quarter of the screen.

Turning Progressive Scan ON or OFF on the DVD recorder made no difference.
(and I am not discounting a fault in the TV)

Looks like possibly amplifier overload to me.

OTOH, on normal material the picture was noticeably better - sharper, better contrast, & Battle Star Galactica looked a lot better - than direct in RGB from the sky+ box to AV1 on the TV!

Any ideas?

John A