Dvd player problem

[vamp]

Hello. Had my mac g4 the last week are so. Play a dvd movie in supersdrive. Picture image was okay. Flicker around images on screen. I have my mac hook up to a vga adapter playing on my computer pc screen. Someone told me since i am using this adapter it's causing the picture quaitly to be so so. The only around this is to buy a apple display. Any input would be great. Thanks

[medievil]

????/ Your Mac doesn't have an ATI Chipset for video??? I've not seen a Recent (Last 5 years or so) Mac that doesn't use a standard SVGA Monitor.
Heck I've not seen one that doesn't come with an ATI Rage 128'ish Video chipset.

[vamp]

I have the mac g4 867. I have a 32mb Geforce 4 graphic card. For me to get the dvd image to come in clear i have to upgrade to a ATI Radeon 9000 Pro graphic card?

[SCB]

The adapter vamp is talking about is not a DB15 to VGA adapter, it is the DVI to VGA adapter that is needed to connect VGA displays to the video cards that come with recent Macs.

Vamp, you will probably get the same quality even if you upgrade to the higher end Radeon. Computer monitors don't provide as good quality as standalone DVD players and TVs. I have heard other people talk about some picture quality issues when they use an adapter to connect their monitor. Although, that was when using a DVI to ADC adapter, so I don't know if that would apply in your case.

[vamp]

I was told by apple care if I wanted perfect picture I had to buy a apple display because the adpater was degrading the image to my computer monitor. Time to save up some pennies up.

[Macnewbie]

I have the mac g4 867. I have a 32mb Geforce 4 graphic card. For me to get the dvd image to come in clear i have to upgrade to a ATI Radeon 9000 Pro graphic card?

Doesn't that card have both the DVI and VGA connectors like the ATI cards?

[vamp]

Yes. I hook up the vga adapter to the dvi port. Everything comes clear to my pc monitor. The only thing I have a problem with is the dvd player. Image is 95% good. When I watch a movie in letterbox the bottom & top has these little green pixles flicker abit. Is this due to the vga adapter hook up degrading the digital singal from the mac?

[jchansen]

Actually, I think this is just the nature of computer monitors. If it is 95% good, I think that you would get 95% with any monitor. DVDs are designed to be watched on a TV. Computer monitors are sharper and have smaller pixels, so on a computer screen it looks worse, because you can see any noise in all its glory. The Playstation emulator VGS showed this very well. Sitting at a monitor, it looked horrible, but that is exactly how it looked on the TV. The TV blurs out the noise, and you sit further back from it.

I just showed a friend a DVD playing on a new TiBook, and the first thing she said was "Why does it look so bad?" I don't think it will get any better with an apple monitor, unless your monitor is cheap.