Dvd component video to hdtv has green tint at top?

[wacle]

I have a lasonic 1100 dvd player ( 4 -5 years old). When I use the component video to a new sylvania 26inch hdtv lcd i get a green tinting at the top of the video that goes in out during the component video usage. The tinting only occurs during the component video. I have changed cabling, moved cable postions, changed how the cable is ran to the tv, checked settings ( 16:9 play back enabled), exchanged the tv, and even tried a newer dvd player(cheap free one from office depot) and after all that the tint remains. I have talked to customer service at Sylvania and the only thing they can suggest is that since my dvd players are not progressive scan that is causing the problem tinting. Has anyone heard of this before and more importantly corrected this? My tv is a sylvania HDTV LCD model number 6226.

[Krispy Kritter]

The fact that it is only on part of the screen, would lead me to believe it is a TV issue. If it were cabling, I'd expect the whole screen tint to be off. I'd take the player and cable(s) over to a friends or even the store, just to rule them out as the source of the issue. If/when they test good, then I would be returning/exchanging the TV for a different model.

An afterthought, have you changed the dvd player output to component? If it is set to s-video for example, you would get a incorrectly tinted output (although it should be the whole screen).

[hobbes4444]

This sounds a little bit like a shielding issue. In the old days if you had a center channel speaker near the TV, and the speaker was not properly shielded, you would get discoloration on the TV where the speaker was situated. I suspect this might be a problem that was unique to tube TVs and would not occur with LCD TVs though, and it sounds like you did different things to test it. Pretty bizarre. Hope you get it resolved. . .

[wacle]

Ok, it appears that the issue is that the dvd player isn't a progressive scan dvd player. Apparently a HDTV lcd needs a progressive scan dvd player. I confirmed this by hooking up a progressive scan dvd and it worked fine with the coloring.