DVD/Video too dark

[alt20]

Hi,

When I play mpg videos on my computer I have to hike the brightness fader in Windows Media Player right up otherwise the video is too dark. The DVD software I use however doesn't really have a brightness setting, so watching DVDs can be a bit annoying.

There must be some way of permanently adjusting the brightness to solve this. Adjusting the monitor's brightness/contrast just isn't enough, while adjusting my video card has no effect on the DVD or mpg video.

Anyone any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Alt

[Krispy Kritter]

Sounds like you have a bad monitor. I just had to replace mine to correct the same problem. My monitor brightness was as high as it would go, and everything was still too dark. You can live with it the way you are already fixing, or replace the monitor which is the real source of the problem.

[thor300]

Try to adjust the overlay settings, find it somewhere under properties for screen - Advanced.