I love my 50" Panasonic Viera but had an issue the other night that really ticked me off. I was watching the Flyers/Habs game on the Versus high-def channel when their feed got all messed up and remained that way for nearly the entire second period. I changed channels just to be sure it wasn't a Comcast issue, and it wasn't. It was watchable to some extent, but there were vertical lines running across the screen and other interference interference, ruining my viewing experience. At one point the video froze for about 10 seconds although the audio was fine, then my screen went black. I changed the channel but got nothing on any channel, so I shut it off

I went upstairs to another TV and was able to watch everything, including the game on their non hi-def station, so it wasn't a cable problem, but could have been the cable high-def box or the TV.

The next morning, I turned it on and everything worked fine, which was a relief, but I'm wondering if my plasma has some sort of protective mechanism that shuts it down if there is some problem with the video feed? Does that make sense? In retrospect, I wish I had popped in a DVD to see if I got a picture, but I was in a hurry because I didn't want to miss the game.

Anyone have any ideas or experience with this?