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  • 31-12-2010 8:43pm
    #1
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭


    I use my laptop to download movies from I-tunes. I connect my laptop to my HD TV to watch the movie but the quality dont be great. I download it first then watch it. Is it my graphics card or memory thats causing this.

    My PC is a Dell Inspiron 1525. 2GB RAM. Pentium dual core CPU. T4200 2.00 GHZ. Can I upgrade my laptop with more memory or should I get a new one. I have just replaced the HDD with a 240 GB and a new keyboard. Whats it worth???.

    Sorry for the confusing post..:)


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  • #2
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    Anyone.......


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    The graphics card is definitely what's letting it down for playing movies on your tv. It's really not upgradable on that laptop, the only solution is to upgrade really.


  • #4
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    The graphics card is definitely what's letting it down for playing movies on your tv. It's really not upgradable on that laptop, the only solution is to upgrade really.

    If I upgraded my RAM to 4GB would that improve it. Someone said the graphics card uses the PC memory...Cheers.


  • #5
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    If I upgraded my RAM to 4GB would that improve it. Someone said the graphics card uses the PC memory...Cheers.

    I very much doubt it. There's more to graphics card than just memory; it might make it very slightly smoother.

    Now, here's a question, what player are you using to play the videos? VLC will be better than windows media player for definite, so that's worth a shot.

    And are the videos all dvd quality? Or are they HD?


  • #6
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    I very much doubt it. There's more to graphics card than just memory; it might make it very slightly smoother.

    Now, here's a question, what player are you using to play the videos? VLC will be better than windows media player for definite, so that's worth a shot.

    And are the videos all dvd quality? Or are they HD?

    All the movies are direct downloads from Itunes. When I download them I play them through Itunes. I downloaded one in HD and that was brutal on the HD TV. I see VLC now!!


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  • #7
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    I downloaded VLC but I cannot play my Itunes movies. It must be from copyright. Oh well new PC I suppose..:)


  • #8
    bhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭bhickey


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    I connect my laptop to my HD TV to watch the movie but the quality dont be great.

    How are you connecting the laptop to the TV?


  • #9
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    bhickey wrote: »
    How are you connecting the laptop to the TV?

    The HDMI connector..


  • #10
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Here's a 720p clip (public domain)
    http://download.blender.org/peach/trailer/trailer_720p.mov

    Download it and play it on something other than iTunes (VLC for example, or even Windows Media Player).

    Then play it on iTunes.

    This gives us enough information to narrow it down:

    -If it looks crap on VLC, then your problem is related to your computer or TV (possibly the output resolution).

    -If it looks crap on iTunes but great on VLC, then the problem is with iTunes.

    -If it looks great on iTunes, and great on VLC, then the problem is that the videos you are downloading from iTunes are crap (maybe iPod resolution?)


  • #11
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    It will only play in Quicktime. I am totally retarded with things like this. The quality looked amazing though... Must be Itunes because I emailed them about it and they credited me for every thing I bought of them..:o


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  • #12
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    I am going to buy something new. Whats my own laptop worth. Spec on post 1..


  • #13
    strangel00p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭strangel00p


    don't be silly with buying new hardware- you have a good laptop. you want to associate the movie files to open with vlc. Right click icon for the downloaded movie which Voodu Child sent you. You should see an option to "open with". select the vlc player and see what happens.


  • #14
    hearny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭hearny


    Agree with strangel00p that you dont need a new laptop just yet.

    Follow Voodu Child's instructions, I would lean towards the resolution being the problem.

    If you want to Invest in some hardware the apple tv might be worth a look for you, since you use iTunes for your content anyway.

    120 Euro for the box and you just connect it to your network, and TV (via hdmi) and you can stream directly from your laptop or rent the content from itunes (http://www.apple.com/ie/appletv/).

    If you want I can give you some simple instructions to set up a remote login and I can check your display settings.

    PM me your email address if you want.


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