iMac TFT DVD player: anyone else's suck?

michaelsanford

michaelsanford

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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?
 
Do you have the latest Quicktime installed along with the latest DVD player?
 
To the best of my knowledge, I have the latest everything (softwareupdate reports my system is up-to-date and I never ignore packages).
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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