Video Card/Monitor help

[tailes151]

Here's the deal. I just bought an x1950 pro agp graphics card. I also recently bought a 22" ws monitor. More specifically the viewsonic vx2255wmb.

My problem is that when view a dvd fullscreen, it becomes somewhat fuzzy. Looks nice and sharp if its not full screen, but the image quality drops pretty drastically if I switch over. I really have no idea what could be the problem. I've got the latest drivers for both my card and the monitor.

Any ideas?

 

[j0j081]

How fuzzy is it? I've read complaints before that dvds just don't look as nice when you get up to screens 22 inchs and larger.

 

[cputeq]

Sounds like a scaling issue. When it's not full screen, you're probably looking at a 1:1 pixel ratio. Sorta like looking at a high quality WMV file in its native size.

But, just like making a WMV file fullscreen, making a DVD fullscreen is going to cause scaling....the monitor or video card or software must scale the image up from native resolution into a resolution to fit your monitor.

Couple of things to try ---

1) See if you can switch which component does the scaling -- your video card might be better at scaling than the monitor, or vice versa. I know with my 7800GT, I selected to let my monitor scale since it was slightly better. This is done in the video card's control panel (disabling video card scaling) and in the monitor menu (Video Zoom mode or something like that). I'm not sure if you video card/monitor even has this option, but you can look for it.

2) See if the program you're using can scale the video and blow it up to your monitor's full screen.

3) Try sitting farther away from the monitor to see if it has the same effect.

 

[BernardP]

A DVD has 480 lines of horizontal resolution and a 4:3 aspect ratio (with the possibility of letterboxing). When expanding the picture to fit a 16:10 monitor with 1050 lines of resolution, upscaling is necessarily involved. It has to look fuzzier than if you keep in in its little native-size (480P) window.