I have 2 game systems, a PS2 and a Dreamcast. I bought a new TV, a Panasonic Tau 27" about 6 months ago .. it's just a regular TV nothing special but it has a great picture for TV and DVDs. I have everything plugged into my receiver, and my receiver connected to the TV's S-video spot in the back.

Whenever I play games on either system, the upper left corner of the screen is like bent in. I have some graphics, like borders, etc, running off the screen in some spots, along the edges of the screen. Basically toward the edges the picture is warped looking. I thought maybe it was the receiver not handling s-video switching good, so I hooked each game system up to the tv seperately and I had the same exact problems. But, if I use the game's original composite connection, the picture looks fine (just not quite as pretty as s-video can be)

I have a friend with a dreamcast and a 40" widescreen tv, and he says he gets the same problems.

Anyone know if there's any way possible to fix this? If I were to use the component video connection for my PS2, would that fix it? My TV has 1 component video spot and my receiver can hold 2 component devices so I could hook up my PS2 and DVD player that way, I guess... but I don't want to waste the money on cables that won't do anything....

I don't know too much about A/V, but here are some of my thoughts. Maybe the S-Video cable that you're using is damaged. I had an S-Video cable that displayed the picture in black and white, but I exchanged it for a new one and everything was fine. What about the settings on your TV, such as Color, Brightness, Hue, etc.? On my TV set, I noticed that the top portion of the picture would curve, and it was really noticeable whenever there were vertical lines on the screen. Then I calibrated my set using a DVD called Avia. Now, you don't have to go out and buy Avia unless you want the best picture to watch DVDs, but I learned that most people set the Picture level way too high on their sets, and that causes the curving in the picture sometimes. You might want to try to lower the Picture setting to around 50%, and see if that helps. As for graphic borders running of the edges of your screen, most TVs do what is called "over scanning" or something like that. TVs are set so that they sort of zoom in on the picture a little bit to make sure the picture takes up the whole screen. Some games have an option in the menu to adjust the screen -- you can move the picture up, down, left, and right. An example of this would be in Resident Evil: Code Veronica. I can't think of other games on the top of my head that have this feature.

Other than that, I don't really know what else you can try to alleviate your problem.

I have the same problem with my Toshiba 32AX60 and all 3 of my systems(PS2, N64, DC). I have them all hooked up with the standard A/V cables that came with the systems. I try to ignore it but I really would like to fix it. I have tried adjusting everything I can and still nothing works.

Thats really strange I've never heard of that problem nor do I know a remedy. If your using all S-video (S-video from your game system to your receiver, and an s-video from that out to your TV it should be ok but it might be certain models of TV's that do this bizarre warping. I bet some people in the DVD & Home Theater could help, there are a lot of really knowledgable people there who may have the answer. I don't know how to link this thread to that forum though, help us out here mod! Or you could just try posting there.

I found out that it's a problem with my peticular TV Oh well, I'll be getting a new one in about 6 months, so I can deal with it for now I guess

I have a 32" Sony TV and my friend has a Mitsubishi and we both have this exact same problem with our Dreamcast and PS2 -- except I don't have the problem with my N64. All of the systems are hooked up via s-video and I'm fairly certain that the component connections have the same problem. BTW how did you find out that it was your TV causing the problem becasue I've always been bothered by this and wanted to fix it. If nothing else I would want to be certain that the next TV I purchase does not reproduce this problem. Thanks for the help.