Ancient DVD player problems

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Hi my friends, Looking for a little help on this one. I've never been a big video guy and well my money and attention has been in the audio end of things. But here goes, I have a Sony dvd/cd player from 1999 model DVp-s550d which at the time was a lot of money. I know its dated but its like brand new and lately I been using it for playing cd's in my living room system and playing occasional concert dvds which seem to be fine. Its hooked up with component outputs to a newer hitachi 50 inch plasma tv. I've noticed that lately older dvd's like my X-files collection and some other classics seem to get occasional artifacts going across the screen..... appears to be intermittant lines.... the dvd's are clean as i keep my stuff immaculate, and I don't believe its the player cause most of my concert dvds all seem ok ( most are newer though.) I've tried different settings on the dvd which really only has tv size... using 16 by 9 and 4 by 3. At the tv end i've tried 16 by 9, zoom 1, zoom 2 and i really don't want 4 by 3 which doesn't fill the screen. Any ideas on this one I know its time for a new one but the cd player end of new stuff scares me as my system is pretty high end and i'd like to keep 1 player for both. Thanks r

xfiler91158

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Topic - Ancient DVD player problems - xfiler91158 16:49:00 09/26/13 (0)

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