Good picture quality on DVD

Geometry!!!! Picture quality of cable grainy, specially given the price!

Wonder if anyone can help me out here...
I purchased a new Sony WEGA KV-32FS12 and have exchanged it 3 times now, but each piece has the following geometry problem:

1. Scrolling lines e.g. tickers on CNBC are kind of wavy with the line tilting downwards on the bottom right. The tilt option does not help since the problem is only at the bottom. In fact measured the hieght of ticker and there is almost 1/2" difference between left end and right end.

2. Light vertical shadow line of the left hand side of the screen - evident only on bright background.

3. Grainy picture on normal cable.

Problems 1 and 2 are the reason why we exchanged it and even called up Sony, but Sony refuses to accept this as a problem even though a tech guy mentioned that it is an issue with the convergence board.

Now the store is not ready to accept this as a problem as it seems they have never heard of this at all! Would appreciate any inputs if anyone else has been through the same. I had read on audioreview.com that there are some secret codes to a menu that could fix this. any thoughts?

Thanks.

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