Hi, I have a Panasonic TH-50PHD8UK 50" display which I put in last year, I have been running it using component video with no problem.

Then last week I bought and installed the DVI board for this TV so I could feed HDMI signal to it (using HDMI to DVI adapter). This was a success and now I can watch HDMI signals.

BUT - component video has stopped working! Has anyone experienced this? I called up Panasonic to ask them and they said both should work simultaneously no problem, but my local installer is saying its likely there's an undocumented glitch in the TH-50PHD8UK that might prevent both working at the same time.

This sucks since I was planning on using both, esp. since my amp cannot switch HDMI so I was going to keep component for my Dish network output, and use HDMI for my DVD. But that plan is now going to have to change.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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PS Interesting to note that we actually preferred the component video image vs the new HDMI image quality. The HDMI image seems vivid, but too vivid - the colors no longer look realistic, they seem oversaturated now. Sharpness seems about the same to our eye.

You need to recalibrate your display after switching. HDMI avoids extra D to A and back conversions. HDMI shouldn't be any worse than component, and could be better. But it also depends on the display too. Some displays do handle component better than HDMI, although that is getting rarer and rarer. (In the old days, some manufacturers in their rev 0 HDMI releases simply did an internal D to A conversion and then sent that signal through the component video circuitry. That doesn't happen anymore, and hasn't for a while though.)