There are two different service menus. The first one is called
"factory adjust mode". You enter it from a powered on state by holding down the VOLUME DOWN button on the set itself and the RECALL key on the remote for five seconds. Apparently to get out of this you turn the set off.

To get to the actual service menu, when in the above mode, you hold down
the VOLUME DOWN button on the set itself and the SWAP key on the remote for five seconds. To get out of this mode back to the previous
state you hit RECALL on the remote.

At this point a screen like the user adjust menu appears which has various
submenus. One is called Video Adjust or something similar. That is where I made my tweaks to get rid of red and purple push.

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I've been looking for an improved software solution over what I've had with WebCamXP. WebCamXP worked pretty well for viewing my USB and conventional cameras remotely, but had some issues with IP cameras and did not do much as far as archiving goes. It's been running rather unstable lately, and it's IP camera functionality was too aggressive and caused crashes on both itself and the cameras.

Since I'm moving to a dedicated camera server I took the advice of a lot of folks over at cocoontech and switched to Active Webcam Deluxe.

Active Webcam has outstanding support for both my IP cameras and my wireless "teddy cam" that feeds in via an RCA-to-USB video adapter. It archives footage both locally and remotely and has a rather efficient interface. It's very resource intensive, but that shouldn't be an issue since the PC running it (a refurbished IBM business-class desktop I got from geeks.com for a tad over $200) will only be running Active Webcam and nothing else.

After a few days of testing, the software appears to be working great and doing everything I've expected of it.

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