1366x768 messes up movies?

I own a "Entertainment-series" HP DV6 and its promoted as such.
Im not planning on watching a lot of movies on it.. but, the situation does occur.

Now it has come to my attention that movies ( especially DVD-rips that look fine on my 19" 1680x1050 pc monitor)
look very pixelerated and "square-like". There is this "grid" or "raster" of squares that appear during playback.

Its making me kinda sad knowing that there are Full HD screens available..
while HP implements a display that fails to show a movie right.

Is this usual for 1366 x 768 laptop screens?
Ive made some screenshots to show, please note that this is a 720p movie:

Normal view: ( look for squares, your eyes will find 'm.. notice the subs and details )


When zoomed in on:




Taken from:

The DVD-rips are around half the resolution of this rip.. and are pixelerated as my grandma's behind.
Even the subtitles are blurred.

( as seen with the screen placed in a range of +- 70cm from the eyes)

Thanks for reading.

 

Screenshots are broken.

Probably your media player, or scaling settings.

 

Links aren't working for me

Nonetheless, is the pixelation happening during moving shots or all the time? I've had the experience of pixelation when scenes were changing, but that was due to my machine not being able to handle the playback properly.

What player are you using btw?

 

Hey guys/gals, when you click on the link - just backspace over the forward slash '/' and click enter in your browsers.

 

Whoops, thats strange.. replaced the url tag with the IMG tag and it works? Anyways.. i use VLC, its going on all the time.
Its the screen, must be.. because the .srt (!!) subtitles are pixelerated.

Played with scaling too, doesnt matter.
Usually set to standard, woudlve hoped if i'd change it to 16:9 it would matter... no luck at all.

 

Try Media Player Classic Home Cinema.

Subtitles are graphic overlays so it's not the screen, especially when I can see the pixellation in a screenshot on my display. I've seen VLC do that before.

 

The shots look fine from where I'm standing O_O I mean, these are DVD rips which means they have a resolution of 480p so of course if you stretch them to a 1366*768 (which is nearly twice the size) you'll have some form of pixelation.

Now the mystery is why in the world would they so-called "look fine" on your other monitor with higher resolution... >.>

 

Am downloading Media Player Classic as we speak!

Trust me, they do not. Please re-read my post. I have editted and added some attention points.
I think you misunderstood some vital details. And Its not a DVD rip, 720p:

SiZE..........: 7.9 GB
ViDEO.CODEC...: x264
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976
BiTRATE.......: 6040 kbps
RESOLUTiON....: 1280x536

I know the flaws are hard to see because its not in motion but if you focus and look for straight-square-kinda-lines you will see a pattern and eventually a grid..

_|_|_
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just like the one above, kinda. lol

 

Yes! Its working, youve made my day man, thanks very much.
Cant believe it, since 2005 ive been using VLC and it neverever let me down.. what gives? Maybe some incompatibility with x64?

For comparison:


720p 1280x720
VLC#1 - Square distortion.
MPC#1 - Sleek as it should be.

DVDRip 564x300
VLC#2 - F.U.B.A.R.
MPC#2 - The way a DVDrip should be displayed.
**Cant capture subs with MPC but they look as VLC used to show them

Cheers :smile:

 

MPC HC gives you more control over what filters are being used to render your media, so troubleshooting is much easier and you can more precisely choose what's doing what. VLC can "play it all", but as I always say, that doesn't mean it plays everything well.

 

Yeah I've had some problems with VLC while watching 720p caps of tennis matches. Switched to MPC HC and haven't looked back since.

 

A nice bonus is that Media Player Classic - Home Cinema also includes DXVA decoding on supported hardware.

I usually rely on either MPC - HC or XBMC with Ubuntu 9.10 for video playback.
But on Intel GL40 type GMA 4500 cards i can only use Splash Media Player for DXVA.

 

it does play better than VLC... that's why i got rid of VLC... bye bye VLC...