Thanks guys. Yeah, I guess that it IS the source material, because the blacker the scene is (and the X-Files is almost always dark) grainier it gets. I can stand some grain, but I could honestly get a better picture with a UHF connection than I can from these dvds, not to mention I saw no problems with the first 3 season dvd sets. Anyway, I guess I can live with the crappy picture so long as I know that they are all that way, and it's not my particular set that is defective. Thanks again.