The same fault that I had, there were loads of posts about this int eh States a couple of years back adn Sony/JVC were replacing the CCDs free of charge. Not sure if that still stands.

Can’t remember teh name of the people who repaired it but can explain where to find them.

Come up Oliver Plunket Street with the PO on your left hand side. You will pass a Bagel shop on Left hand side also the book shop O Ruiseal, Mac Sweeney camera on your right. Keep going till you come to a discount shop (I think it is called the Euro shop) on the right hand side.

There is a very narrow lane on the left hand side adn about half way down there is a sex shop (yes, I kid you not). Immediately opposite is a black door (reinforced). The first time I was outside that door I was sure that I had been given wrong directions. Ring the bell.
A word of caution, the camera was never ‘the same’ since the CCD was replaced. During manufacture at the factory they do some last minute adjustments that are burned into EEPROM that mate the CCD … with the optics. I think you loose these with the new CCD.