Washed out colour on TV

[lagomatic]

Hello guys,

Just set up my Tivo (its indexing now) and I've got to say I'm impressed, what a great system.

Have to thank the guys for setting up & maintaining this community. I'll be chipping in in whatever way I can.

However I have one problem, the picture quality is very washed out, grainy and lacking in detail. I'm just trying to establish if there is an easy fix for this, or is my TiVo faulty.

Is this a palmod issue as I have not got the palmod installed as I was under the impression is was not needed if going through Foxtel Digital.

My set up is:
Tivo, CacheCard hooked up to Foxtel Digital Cable.
I'm running s-video out of Foxtel to Tivo. Composite video from Tivo to TV. The reason I'm running composite out to tv is that for some reason my tv won't accept S-Video from my Tivo, not sure if the s-video on the Tivo is faulty.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

John