Why DVD looks crap on High End Computer monitor compare to a TV?

[lain]

The color looks darker and off, even on a HIGH END Sony/Mitusbuish Monitor than
a regular Panasonic TV.

Can any one explains this? You'd think it'd look super bright with incredible colors becasue of the higher resolutions
and color suppored on the computer monitor....this is very bothersome.

Thanks in advance

 

[halldav3]

A little more info is needed:

What type of signal are you feeding?
What high-end model is it?
Have you had the high-end monitor calibrated? (If it is that kind of monitor)

 

[xtreme2k]

Many possibilities it is a combination of these.

- Sh1t quality decoder and graphics card output.
- Monitors are of MUCH higher quality than TV and you WILL be able to see the artificacts that is actually present but will be 'missing' from a poorer quality TV.

 

[Chubs]

The higher resolutions and incredible colors also highlight more flaws in the encoding.

 

[llc00ljoel]

Maybe its your monitor...I was watching a DVD on a friends laptop on an active matrix TFT screen and I was thinking "damn it looks so much better than my Wega, but too bad its only 14" across"

 

[Damascus]

Not to rain on your parade, but higher resolutions != super bright picture
or incredible color.

 

[Dundain]

The reason your colors look off is probably because you havent configured the moniter correctly. Do you have the moniter set to a comparable contrast/brightness level? Did you set the temperature of the moniter to the same range as a TV? (though that'll be hard to do, unless your TV is correctly on the NTSC ratings) Are you viewing the DVD in a bright room with the moniter, but not with the TV? And like the others have said, a good moniter/DVD drive (as long as you use recent software decoders you should get good recreations of the DVD unless your drive sucks or the mix of the DVD was bad) will show everything that was done with the DVD extremely well if its configured correctly. Sounds like you dont have it set right. My 17in Optiquest moniter hooked to my GeForce 2 MX and PowerDVD software blows away my neighbors bigscreen TV setup