iMac TFT DVD player: anyone else's suck?

[michaelsanford]

Wow I never noticed how much my iMac TFT's DVD player sucked until I played a few live concert DVDs.

All the black parts of the picture are snowed with faint RGB noise, and anything moving faster than a slow pan is interlaced like NUTS.

Eric Johnson playing on the G3 concert DVD (Satriani, Johnson, Vai: '96), strumming his guitar relatively smoothly, and it looks like a low-quality streamed WMV...

Now, I wouldn't be complaining, if it weren't for the fact that these symptoms appear exclusively on my iMac: not on my PS/2, not on my JVC DVD, nowehere else but my computer.

Is my DVD player dusty, or is it just poorly designed and built?

[Cheryl]

Do you have the latest Quicktime installed along with the latest DVD player?

[michaelsanford]

To the best of my knowledge, I have the latest everything (softwareupdate reports my system is up-to-date and I never ignore packages).

[ex2bot]

I wonder if you are noticing a symptom of many TFT monitors. Something about refresh being too slow to do video justice.

That said, I enjoy watching videos on my 17" iMac G4. Have you tried VLC?

Doug

[Arden]

If you can finagle a screenshot, that would be helpful.

I have noticed that the DVD Player on my iMac also interlaces fast motions. I think it may be a thing with rendering the picture to pixels instead of to RGB cones. You'll probably have to put up with it.

[michaelsanford]

dktrickey> VLC, is that a DVD player software?

arden> I didn't think you could take screenshots of the DVD player for copyright purposes. I won't be back at my iMac for a month, but when I get back I'll give it a shot hehe.

[nb3004]

VLC is a media player, very good but a little different from the Apple DVD player.
http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738

to the best of my knowledge you cant take screen captures of the DVD player as well