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August 4th, 2003, 10:11 AM
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| iMac TFT DVD player: anyone else's suck? Wow I never noticed how much my iMac TFT's DVD player sucked until I played a few live concert DVDs.  All the black parts of the picture are snowed with faint RGB noise, and anything moving faster than a slow pan is interlaced like NUTS. Eric Johnson playing on the G3 concert DVD (Satriani, Johnson, Vai: '96), strumming his guitar relatively smoothly, and it looks like a low-quality streamed WMV... Now, I wouldn't be complaining, if it weren't for the fact that these symptoms appear exclusively on my iMac: not on my PS/2, not on my JVC DVD, nowehere else but my computer. Is my DVD player dusty, or is it just poorly designed and built?
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August 4th, 2003, 02:21 PM
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| Do you have the latest Quicktime installed along with the latest DVD player?
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August 4th, 2003, 09:03 PM
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| To the best of my knowledge, I have the latest everything (softwareupdate reports my system is up-to-date and I never ignore packages).
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August 4th, 2003, 10:46 PM
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| I wonder if you are noticing a symptom of many TFT monitors. Something about refresh being too slow to do video justice. That said, I enjoy watching videos on my 17" iMac G4. Have you tried VLC? Doug
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August 4th, 2003, 11:08 PM
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| If you can finagle a screenshot, that would be helpful. I have noticed that the DVD Player on my iMac also interlaces fast motions. I think it may be a thing with rendering the picture to pixels instead of to RGB cones. You'll probably have to put up with it.
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August 5th, 2003, 11:29 AM
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| dktrickey> VLC, is that a DVD player software? arden> I didn't think you could take screenshots of the DVD player for copyright purposes. I won't be back at my iMac for a month, but when I get back I'll give it a shot hehe.
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August 5th, 2003, 07:40 PM
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| VLC is a media player, very good but a little different from the Apple DVD player. http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738 to the best of my knowledge you cant take screen captures of the DVD player as well
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