My girlfriend just got a new Compaq X1000 laptop. I've never had a laptop with DVD, and was surprised that the image quality of the playback was quite bad.
It is a Centrino 1.3GHz, ATI Radeon 9200 graphics (32 meg), and a WSXGA+ screen.
The problems are with areas of low contrast, like walls, the sky, etc. The color is extremely grainy, and in some scenes it's as if there were a grey film over the screen. It's watchable, but doesn't look very good. We were disappointed.
Does anyone have advice on how we could improve the quality of the DVD playback? Here is what we have tried so far, in BOTH WinDVD and PowerDVD:
Enable and disable "hardware acceleration"
Change resolution and color depth (from 800*600 16mil to the highest)
Re-installed the graphics driver from Compaq's website
Tried several DVDs (Moulin Rouge is our best test, since it's extremely visual).
Thanks guys!
It is a Centrino 1.3GHz, ATI Radeon 9200 graphics (32 meg), and a WSXGA+ screen.
The problems are with areas of low contrast, like walls, the sky, etc. The color is extremely grainy, and in some scenes it's as if there were a grey film over the screen. It's watchable, but doesn't look very good. We were disappointed.
Does anyone have advice on how we could improve the quality of the DVD playback? Here is what we have tried so far, in BOTH WinDVD and PowerDVD:
Enable and disable "hardware acceleration"
Change resolution and color depth (from 800*600 16mil to the highest)
Re-installed the graphics driver from Compaq's website
Tried several DVDs (Moulin Rouge is our best test, since it's extremely visual).
Thanks guys!
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