any advice?

I got my t61p this morning and have been following the directions of technical support for hours now. They had me run the back-to-factory job and the full hardware test.

All I did was power-up, answer the XPPro setup questions, pop a dvd to watch a movie (only add/test one thing at a time is my idea), answer the player setup questions, and the dvd (which plays perfectly fine on my old machine) looks impossibly thin and dull, like I'm watching it through a heavy curtain, and the text looks fuzzy throughout.

What is odd is that other pictures I looked at from my own backups don't look AS bad - still not pop-py bright or colorful, but not nearly as bad as the dvd.

I would attempt tweeks based on the still photos but the dvd is So bad that unless someone knows a quick fix I'm going to send the computer back and hope for not such a big out-of-the-box job to make it right next time.

Thanks.

 

Can you tell if your DVD software, by chance, is changing the screen resolution when it starts playing? That would account for fuzziness. Also make sure that Windows is running at the LCD's native resolution for the sharpest image.

As for the dull look, that may be contrast or brightness that needs to be adjusted, though I don't know how to do that on a T61p.

Regards,

z.

 

The dullness may be screen/brightness/contrast issue witht he monitor as Z mentioned but the fuzzy text maybe because you dont have Cleartype activated.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx


Happy Holidays.

-Kdawgca

 

what type of movie are you playing exactly? Is it a divx file? original DVD? VCD? Try using VLC player, which can be easily downloaded at www.download.com