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

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.

Hi there...thanks for confirming that the Sony Vegas do have a problem. Thought it was just me going crazy or something.
As for what I have connected..I am just using the component in on the sony tv with a regular component out from my sony dvd player. It is not a progressive player.
My tv seems fuzzy with off air tv programs...even when tuned in as clear as it gets...I guess it is just the differance between (dvd resolution I'm spoiled) on and regular tv signal max. resolution.
I did note that my new tv receives UHF channels
in strange numerical orders though. EX...ch 15 is now ch 66. Oh well any other thoughts out there?

I have a friend who has given up on using DVD with her 36-inch Sony Wega.She does not like the letterbox format so VHS will be the mode for watching movies.

CORRECTION!!! (egad, I feel like an oaf...) For confirmation, I went to the US Patent & Trademark office website to find out once and for all if it's Wega or Vega. Drumroll please... it IS, in fact, Wega. I have NO idea why. My only guess is that Wega is Japanese for "easily confusing to foolish Americans". Cheers!