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    XPS 17 (L702x) movies quality?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by piero, May 13, 2011.

  1. piero

    piero Notebook Enthusiast

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    Maybe it's normal, perhaps due to the glossy screen, but the quality of the movies, no matter if from DVD or hard drive, is not what I expected to be.
    It works fine till I go full screen. It looks to me something like it's scaling up the original size but not fully or with a bad interpolation.
    I can see like tiny square pixels along edges of the shapes. It seems like a low res video scaled up a bit too big.

    Anybody else got the same results?
     
    piero, May 13, 2011
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    wildjim Notebook Geek

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    I have the non 3d ag screen and its sharp with bluray movie and a hd olympic archery video which I can see every detail and writing on the bow and stabilizer. The colors are perfect.

    I also viewed some recent macro flower photographs that I took and they look fine perfect colors and sharp corner to corner on this new laptop screen.
     
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  3. adi9

    adi9 Notebook Enthusiast

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    DVDs are standard definition (NTSC DVD is 720x480) , so yes they will be scaled up even for th 900p screen and even more fore the 1080p.In fact they may look worst on the 1080p than on 900p screen as the scaling is higher.

    To see a great image you need a blu-ray or any other HD source. Just to check, search for any 1080p material and download it. You can find some 1080p Youtube also but these will be "less" than a blu-ray quality usualy because of the compression, but still much better than a DVD.

    Remember, a lot of downloaded videos from the net are even lower quality than the DVD,3many can be even less than VGA resolution.If you download, look for those which are at least 720p. Anything less than that and you will be dissapointed.
     
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    ewensimpson Notebook Enthusiast

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    Blu-rays look great even on the 1600x900 screen. :)
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    piero, what program are you using to watch video? Also, what kind of videos?

    For stuff from the hard drive that needs to be scaled up, I would strongly recommend you try madVR.
     
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    gpig Notebook Deity

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    That's kind of what it is. Lets say the DVD movie is 644x284 and your native resolution is 1920x1080, that means the fullscreen movie is scaled up to take up 11.3 times more pixels than are really there. Factor in the large screen size and close viewing distance and it becomes even more noticeable.
     
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  7. gull_s_777

    gull_s_777 Notebook Consultant

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    DVD rips look not good at all....

    BRRips (i have 720p rips) looks amazing on this screen....
     
    gull_s_777, May 13, 2011
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    piero Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've tried with Blu-rays as well. No ripped stuff, original DVDs and Blu-rays. On my old Dell M90 with the glossy screen I've never noticed nothing like this.
    The apps I've tried so far: Media Player Classic Home Cinema, VLC, KLM, the bundled Blu-Ray/Dvd player that comes with the XPS (I forgot now the name... Cyber Dvd something).
     
    piero, May 13, 2011
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    The screen itself has nothing to do with interpolation or pixelation. I'm using PowerDVD which came with the system the screen is 1080p the Bluray I watch is 1080i there is no interpolation and the image looks great.Make some photos of the screen, close-up with a Blu-ray playing and post them.
     
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    aviwil Notebook Guru

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    Piero - I suggest you try Splash Pro Splash PRO - The Next Generation Player .
    You can download a free trial for 1 mth - I've found it be the lightest and best .
     
    aviwil, May 15, 2011
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