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Subject: TRENT ARE YOU STILL OUT THERE!

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Jeff

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Date Posted: 12:07:19 11/10/99 Wed

I am hitting one dead end after another with this question. You are my last hope:

Sometime back you offered your advice to Transmonde users. If you are not too busy, I was wondering if I could pick you brain a bit?

I have been noticing some artifacts when viewing DVD's that are most annoying. They occur both on screen and when output to the TV via the VCR. I apologize for not knowing the correct terminology for these artifacts but I'll do my best to describe them: 1)A "blockiness" or "squarness" to the images on the screen, and 2) A strange surreal effect when the scene is dark or dimly lighted that looks like a negative of a photograph (I call it polorization but I'm not sure if that's the right name). It looks like the darker movie scenes are distorted somehow.

The blockiness is probably due to limitations in the video sub-system because it is only present on the notebook screen and not on the TV. The dark screen artifact, however, seems to be independent of the video system/drivers since it is also apparant on TV. I took the DVD in question back to the store I bought it from and played it on their machine and it looked great.

Do you think this is a driver problem, a decoder card problem, a video problem or the DVD player itself? If a driver problem, is the DVD player (realmagic) and the DVD driver one and the same thing? How can I tell what driver version I am using since DVD does not show up in the Device Manager? I've been to the Real Magic (Sigma Designs) web site and they won't answer my Email. Probably because the decoder is OEM. If it is a decoder card, can those be replaced or are they specific to Transmondes configuration?

Do you have any other suggestions? At the very least do you have any standardized terminology for the artifacts I'm seeing?
Thanks for helping me!! No one else has.

Jeff Rice

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