Great television until after 1 year started to notice color distortion that degaussing would not fix. Found one other person that had same issue, but posting this hoping others have same problem and will contact me or post on forums. Suspect widespread inherent design flaw in CRT that Hitachi is seeking to minimize, not proactively fix (btw, Hitachi does not appear to make direct view TVs anymore). Distortion made more obvious by using Digital Video Essentials DVD (reference materials). Another user used AVIA. Hitachi seems to be pushing back since CRT no longer available; i.e., no spare parts. Which is why I suspect inherent design flaw (I'm in electronics mfg'g business so I know how mfr would handle this kind of disaster). Still under warranty and repair shop, as auth'd facility, is tweaking set per Hitachi technical direction. Hitachi rep that called (not repair shop), whose name and number I will eventually post, was not optimistic it can be fixed. Don't know what the tweaks are but made it clear to him that 100% fix and permanent fix (Vs temp that fails after warranty runs out) are not acceptable. He agreed. This happened today.