Low Quality Playback on DV6700t

Hey everyone,

I just got a DV6775US today. I decided to give a DVD a try. It's a DVD of a television show. The picture quality is horrendous. It looks as though it had been compressed to death. I had it working correctly at one point but I have no idea what caused it to work. Now no matter what I do, it still shows in low quality. The picture exhibits a lot of ghosting. It's driving me crazy!

Can anyone help me? Any idea what's causing this and how I can fix it?

 

is it choppy or something or just poor quality?

 

It's just suffering from ghosting. Like someone compressed the video. I'm putting a physical DVD in the drive. I can't figure it out.

 

Ideas? Anyone?

 

Just a little more info. I just tried VLC and it's ghosting too. I think this problem isn't related to the players I'm using. I also installed the K-lite codecs and they don't seem to help.

 

Maybe its the dvd itself.. bad video format?

 

No. It does this on every DVD. Like I said earlier I did something to fix it but when I change the chapter it goes right back to ghosting.

 

On my dv6700t, it played DVD's with horrible quality as well. I played a DVD (House Season 3 to be exact) and was absolutely horrible. The picture was not clear, and the quality was lacking. The picture looked very "smudgy / foggy". As for the fix for this problem, I would call HP and demand a new laptop, or a fix for your current model.

 

Ghosting is usually a result of the a bad connection between the LCD and the computer. A bad LCD cable or loose connection... or even a bad LCD.

Seems like a pretty easy quick fix for the technician...

 

It's horrible on my end too as of now. It worked very well and looked great a few times until I changed the chapter. Went right back to ghosting.

Aaaaaggh!!! I'd like to be able to say I got my 1k's worth.

 

try a couple things;
* Flex your LCD screen.(grabs the corners of the screen and push one side and pull the other, not hard enough to break anything of course...)
* Disable the stand by lid close action. Then play a DVD and try closing and opening the lid and see if there is a picture change.

 

Okay I have an update. I took your advice and tried the lid thing, FunnyX. Weird thing happened. The DVD starts with the same ghosting. But when I close the lid and open it again, I get this error telling me that WMP can't play the DVD because "there is a problem with digital copy protection between your drive, decoder and video card". It suggest updating my video card. Now when I dismiss the error and hit the play button, the problem goes away.

It would be really annoying to have to do this for every DVD I watch. Any idea what went wrong? The chat rep at HP thinks I should reset my BIOS and reinstall my video drivers.

 

Oh yes, one more thing. Is this particular notebook supposed to only give me the option of 60Hz as a a refresh rate?

EDIT: Nevermind. I found the answer to this one. Sorry bout that. lol

Anyway, I'm guessing this might be a codec issue? I did install K-lite as I mentioned before so I don't know what the problem is other than the MPEG-2 encoder might not be Vista compatible or something?

 

i dont think it would hurt to uninstall and reinstall graphic card drivers and optical drive drivers

 

I've done all that. But I do think it might be the codec. I can't get any to work. I've tried K-lite, I've tried VLC, I've tried nVidia PureVideo and Media Player AND VLC won't play the DVDs properly. It looks like it's been smashed down to MPEG-4. The only way I can correct it is to close the lid, open it again, click out of WMP's error message about copy protection, click on play again and it works fine except that it goes later into the DVD. I can't keep doing every time I watch a DVD. It'll drive me nuts.

 

Update.

It works in Media Player Classic so it has to be a codec issue. I can't understand why the MPEG-2 codec works there but not in VLC or WMP11. Any ideas?

 

Instead of K-Lite, there is Vista Codec Pack for Vista OS. K-lite is very good for XP and I am sure has everything to work with Vista as well, but when I searched, I found Vista Codec Pack is recommended with Vista. Give it a try....

 

Thanks.

I tried it but it didn't work. I know it can play them properly because of the lid thing but why it won't do it that way all the time instead of just when I pull the lid down and then up again, I don't know.