On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:00:48PM +0000, Natalie S. Ford said: > i am sure that muttley can explain further, but a scart cable upgrade > should sort you out, dave.
<unlurk from down under> As mentioned ad nauseaum ever since the release of the lifestyle accesory masquerading as a console </troll ;)> the DVD player in the PS2 is shit. IIRC it's not one of the normal mechanisms used by Sony in their fine consumer DVDs but, instead, one optimized for games i.e lots of random access and various other gamy things. It's one of the reasons why DVD isn't actually the best medium for games and *one* of the reasons Sega went with the propietary GD-ROM format. That said, by getting the DVD upgrade, if you haven't already (it takes up about 4-8mb on the VMU IIRC), then the quality does improve. You can either by it with the little remote control or I could probably source you a temporary copy on return to Blighty. Even still there was fair uproar in Japan when PS2s were found incapable of playing some very popular DVD, possibly the Mononoke or Spirited Away or something. There were problems with the Scart cables of PS2s resulting in excessive greenness of pictures, and this could be fixed by using composite or getting a better scart cable. It doesn't sound like your problem though. TBH, I'd just by a cheapo DVD player or something especially since then you could get a region free one. Tescos at one point were doing a Wharfdale for a hundred quid that got good reviews from What-DVD and had the bonus of allowing you to set the region using handset codes. > alternatively, use your laptop as a dvd drive and plug it in to your tv? Quick question - recently, whilst trying to watch a DVD on a laptop (a lateish model Vaio) on the TV via composite out (little yellow headphone jack sized female socket?) we'd get a sharp picture of the desktop but a black rectangle where the DVD was playing. This was in Windows media Player and some proprietary DVD app so I presume it was a codec issue. I saw mention of 'overlay' or something but turning off various options to do with that gave no joy. Any ideas? Simon
