Green screen on TV with HDMI

Hello,
I bought a new Mac Mini one month ago with Mountain Lion. I updated it today to 10.8.1.
Today I connected it to my Philips TV with Eye TV Sat. After 10-15 minutes I get a green screen first and then a screen with red and cyan colors.
Disconnecting and connecting the HDMI connector solves the problem for the next quarter of an hour.
How can this problem be solved ?
Thanks,
Hubert

Hmmm, good find, just no idea what the cause might be.
Do those messages quit if you stop using EyeTV?
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

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