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    Vista video quality sucks!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by totono, Mar 4, 2007.

  1. totono

    totono Notebook Consultant

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    I installed vista ultimate with all the drivers on my FE 690. Everything is cool except for the video quality. Its noticibly blurrier than it was with XP. I have the nvidia 7600 vista driver installed, resolution is also set at native. Anybody else with this weird problem? thanks in advance for any advice!
     
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    PuppetMaster2501 Notebook Consultant

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    This might be the problem. I haven't notice any loss in video quality with my vista, so I guess it's your driver. Also, it might be your codec. My vista couldn't play AVI files before I installed "VistaCodecs" and now it plays everything.
     
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    dlwoodjr Notebook Guru

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    I googled "VistaCodecs" and found as many different versions as there are links... Which are you using and do you have a link? What about DVD playback software? I haven't installed one yet, but I just received an email from Cyberlink that there is a Vista update for PowerDVD...

    Anyone using any P2P utilities with Vista yet? I was using sharezilla and torrents, but haven't tried them yet since the upgrade... Who is using what?

    Don
     
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  4. totono

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    hmmm the nvidia driver is the driver the sony support site offers for my video card on vista. i couldn't play .avi's until i installed the divx codec from www.divx.com. i'm starting to think that the loss in video quality is due to the DRM protection vista is implementing, if this is the case im going back to xp, this is insane!
     
    totono, Mar 5, 2007
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