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Bizarre HD quality issue
SilkyNumNuts
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Essentially, My friend has a laptop (Vaio VPCF 11JOE) which we have attempted to play blu-rays upon. The discs we've played are Inception and Scott Pilgrim. The HDTV it's connected to is a SAMSUNG LE40 B550 although it's exhibited the same problem on a.
Basically, the colours are, for lack of a better word, ghosting. It's not quite ghosting - I know what that looks like, and it's not this, but the colours are... sticking, and they look almost like JPG artifacts upon movement - still shots can look as sharp as they should, but movement fucks it up. there's almost a flat patch of colour that remains.
We haven't tried another HDMI lead, however trying it on another laptop seems to deliver a picture without these problems on other HD, non Blu-ray files. However, the VAIO did have the same problem with this file.
I've not used this cable much though - I got it for use with my 360, but it actually seems to give a much harsher picture than VGA, far more jaggies and thus a far uglier picture - I (without anything really to back it up) assumed that VGA's slightly lower accuracy was somehow smoothing the picture? Now I'm wondering if something else is at play... It is a cheap no-name cable, but I thought that was ok for HD.
Any ideas, guys?
EDIT: Although, using this cable with the laptop now, it's got some weird colour issues. Not the same ones, but somethings up - there's almost a glow around words., and pics look weird, hard to describe but the colours are wrong - edging is weird.
Basically, the colours are, for lack of a better word, ghosting. It's not quite ghosting - I know what that looks like, and it's not this, but the colours are... sticking, and they look almost like JPG artifacts upon movement - still shots can look as sharp as they should, but movement fucks it up. there's almost a flat patch of colour that remains.
We haven't tried another HDMI lead, however trying it on another laptop seems to deliver a picture without these problems on other HD, non Blu-ray files. However, the VAIO did have the same problem with this file.
I've not used this cable much though - I got it for use with my 360, but it actually seems to give a much harsher picture than VGA, far more jaggies and thus a far uglier picture - I (without anything really to back it up) assumed that VGA's slightly lower accuracy was somehow smoothing the picture? Now I'm wondering if something else is at play... It is a cheap no-name cable, but I thought that was ok for HD.
Any ideas, guys?
EDIT: Although, using this cable with the laptop now, it's got some weird colour issues. Not the same ones, but somethings up - there's almost a glow around words., and pics look weird, hard to describe but the colours are wrong - edging is weird.
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How does it look if you play 1080p content from a different source like say youtube?
Unless they specifically only want you to be able to watch it only on the laptop screen so you have to go out and buy yourself a Blu-ray player.
Which wouldn't be totally unlikely for Sony, I suppose.
The weird thing is that the other file it was doing this with was of HD resolutions but wasn't DRM'd.
I believed that HDCP was supposed to restrict you to non-HD resolutions, not just give you weird colour fuckups. It was definitely in HD... It just seems like an illogical way to enforce it.
That is not a good sign but it's like irrelevant in this case.
As for HDCP the thing it has to be everything that supports it. Meaning blu ray drive, media player, operating system and screens. Since it's a Sony I'm sure the drive is fine and if the OS is Vista or 7 that should also be fine.
Anyway since you're also seeing problems with HD material from a file as well as the blu ray movies that rules out HDCP. What's left is graphics drivers, codec issues, media playr issues and finally faulty hardware. I don't know which player you are using but you could try VLC for the HD file just to try something quickly.
I did have a look - While it has the 1080 full hd sticker, it doesn't have and HD ready sticker - so maybe it isn't able to output it? It is windows 7
Although VLC seemed to correct the file, so now I'm just really confused.
I'll try to mess around with the graphics drivers, and codecs, but if it's faulty hardware he's not seeing other problems, so not sure it can be fixed in that case.
Is it possible to get faulty HDMI cables? Would it be worth trying another?