Video/Movies clarity issues.

Hi,
I just bought Compaq C713TU Notebook.
I like everything about this Laptop, the only issue is with the clarity of movies I play on my laptop.
It has Vista Home installed on it.

The problem is - when I play movies, they are not that clear as they used to be on my desktop. I have never seen movies on any laptop so I dont know the clairity of movies on them.

I also have installed the latest drivers for my chipset (Intel 965PM).

Also some of the movies run in really good quality. Still those movies which were looking clear on my desktop, appear blurred on my laptop.

Can you suggest me the reason for this problem that whether this is because vista or driver or software or this is normally the case with laptops.

Thanks in advance.
Pawan

 

What's the resolutions of the two things? If your laptop has a much better resolution that could do it.

 

There are 2 things at work:

1. Your LCD resolution
2. The quality of the source material

LCD resolution on a notebook ranges from "low" to "high". High resolution LCDs have many more pixels so they can display crisper images.

As well, source material such as a DVD or a video file (.avi, .mpg, .mov, etc.) can come in various levels of quality also ranging (for lack of a better term) from "low" to "high". If you've seen the difference between HD TV and traditional, than that's a good comparison.

However, the only way to get the highest quality image is to have both (a) a high resolution LCD and (b) high quality source material.

The quality of the playback is limited by the lowest quality element (example: a high res LCD can't make a low quality video file look good).

 

Thanks for the reply.
I have 1280 x 800 resolution in 32bit color.

I am concerned because the same videos used to play with much clarity on my desktop which had a 800 x 600 resolution.

I even have Core 2 Duo 1.5Ghz

Can the video clarity increase if I reduce the resolution to 800 x 600? even this looks illogical to me.

Still what else can I do to get some amount of clarity for the same movies. Atleast to get clear about the way they were on my desktop.

Thanks
Pawan

 

reducing resolution on an LCD only makes things look blurry.

the bottom line is that you are stuck at the native resolution.

the videos seemed clearer on 8x6 because that is a lower resolution than your LCD and probably closer to the source material's processed resolution.

to imitate the quality of 8x6, make the media player window smaller.

or just go full screen and live with the lower resolution.

the issue for you is your source material. if you were watching an HD DVD, your screen would then be the limiting factor because the HD DVD source material resolution is much higher than your LCD's highest resolution.

 

If some look good, then it is either a codec or media player error. It cant be a hardware limitation (LCD quality) nor a resolution problem. What type of movies look good/bad ?. Unless you are referring to HD videos as NotebookYoozer pointed out.

CCCP is a good codec pack that can play almost every movie type out there, and they have the most up-to-date codecs.
VLC and Media Player Classic are two very good 3rd party video players, try those and see if there is any difference