I'm getting low brightness problems while playing videos

[Booster]

Please don't tell me to increase the brightness on my monitor - it's bright enough, and I see everything I need to see in Windows, but not when watching videos. The brightness level seems to be just horribly low, no matter what type of a file - be it a DVD movie, avi file or any other type of a file. I had to increase the overlay brightness up to 80%, otherwise I don't see a thing in video.

Players used: Windows MP 8
Intervideo WinDVD 4
Video cards: Radeon 7000
GF 2MX
It happens with no matter video card or player I use.

What I'm basically asking is... Is this normal? Are you getting the same type of a problem and is there a fix except increasing overlay brightness? And also, why is that? I don't get the point of this low brightness settings.

Thanks a lot for any replies to this thread.

 

[Booster]

C'mon people... I don't believe you never puzzled over this. Seriously, WTF? This is perhaps the most annoying computer-related problem that bugs me. I just don't get it. I need to up brightness to at least +50-75% to even see a thing. This is so frustrating. Why on earth would they set the brightness levels to such low values by default in DVDs and avi files, this makes no sense to me. And why am I unable to watch videos with comfort w/o having to play with overlay settings like I got no other better things to do?

Please comment... And please don't remark that I have a crappy monitor - I got two completely different ones (an LCD and CRT) and results are the same - the same annoying dark crap.

 

[Booster]

Hey.. I'm still waiting and waiting for constructive comments on these extremely annoying issues. I'm sure you also encountered something like that. And like... what did you do?

 

[Looney]

Um up the Gamma on Overlay?

 

[Booster]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Um up the Gamma on Overlay?

Yes, that's what I do. I have to up it up to 75% to even see a d@m thing. I don't think it's the way these things were meant to be, that's what I mean. So, you can't watch a movie without upping the overlay brightness up to 75%? I don't buy it. The reason I started this thread I want to find out whether other people have the same kind of problem and why it even occurs. I don't think it's normal. Maybe something wrong with the video cards i have, and it isn't a problem between a computer and a chair, believe me.

 

[Looney]

No, gamma, not brightness. Gamma has a value of 0-2.5... not percentages... at least with ATI.

If you did that and it still does that, then i don't know what the problem could be.