Fuzzy DVD's

[Headtime]

I've just got a new pooter with DVD RW and TFT Screen and Cyberlink's Power DVD. When I play a DVD, the image is not very sharp and looks sub-VHS quality. Desktop Icons, Web pages, and BMP's/JPG's all display perfectly crisply. Anyone got an idea what the problem could be?

[tfi52180]

This is because DVD's use MPEG2 compression. On a typical TV screen the resolution is not very high, so DVD's appear extremly clear, but as a computer monitor is much sharper the compression artifacts can be seen more obviously. There is no problem with any of your hardware, hope this helps!

[tfi52180]

Me again, forgot to mention that DVD video is recorded at a size of 720*576 pixels, but computer resolutions are much higher e.g. my monitor is at 1024*768 so when you play a DVD at full screen it is actually resized.

[Headtime]

Many, thanks tfi52180, Your answer makes sense. Cheers