First, I'd suggest that you remove the composite connection - you're not going to ever want to use it. Make sure the component cable is connected properly between player and 990 (green to green, blue to blue, red to red) and set the DVD input's video to COMP-DVD. Also make sure the TV is set to use its component input - what you are describing currently is exactly what I would expect to see if the TV's input is set to either composite or s-video at the time (the 990 doesn't transcode from component to composite). Once that's done, give it a whirl and let us know what happens.