Q: When watching (regular, non-HD) DVDs on a regular TV, it would seem they always look great--vivid colors, sharp image. When watching DVDs on my hi-res LCD laptop screen, they always look kind of weak. The image is often interlaced, the colors are stale and dull, and the pixels in the image are blocky and obvious. I understand the interlacing issue. But even after de-interlacing, why don't DVDs look as good on my laptop?
A: The graphics card makes a difference. The main reason is the TVs SD-TV resolution of 640X480 pixels (NTSC standard) found n DVDs being stretched across a computers 1024X768 (or more) pixels. A god pixel blending program (found in most modern video cards) will fix this. And no, lowering the resolution doesn't help.