Does anyone else have trouble playing anime with good PQ?

[Daravon]

I'm attempting to play anime DVDs with both my laptop and desktop, and having a heck of a time getting good picture quality. My laptop likes to go fuzzy and jittery with my Cowboy Bebop DVD and my desktop's color is all flickery with my Azumanga DVDs. Is there something about anime that makes it more challenging to play than conventional live action material?

[7Raven7]

Technically speaking, a computer monitor runs at a higher resolution than a TV screen. It is also capable of getting higher frames per second. As a side note, laptops are usually graphically inferior to desktops. As far as whether an anime cd may play differently than live action, it may depend on what you bought. Were these retail copies? If so, were they region free? Make sure to clean your disks as well.

It may also depend on your personal hardware specs. What is your laptop/desktop, graphics cards, cd/dvd players and what are the highest resolution/refresh rates you can use? I know a lot of the computers I build (most) can play most movies and formats but occasionally I run into a region free dvd etc. that will not play with a certain brand of cd rom. There are a number of things you can do such as making sure you have the latest graphic drivers and optimizing your computer for video as well as installing appropriate codex etc.

[Daravon]

Well my laptop is an acer 8014 with an ATI 128MB x700 mobility radeon and my desktop is a DFI RS482 with integrated ATI graphics.

Both exhibit tearing and softness with my cowboy bebop dvd and both show crackly color with my azumanga dvds. Both are the region one liscenced releases.

I don't think I have a hard ware issue, because live action plays fine, and playing them on my laptop to Sony HDTV via S-video looked fine. It's just odd that anime is any different, you'd think a dvd would be a dvd.

[Tremolo]

On my pretty new Dell laptop, the DVD player isn't much of a fan of anything animation. Choppy frames and juddery panning and ghosting and stuff, it's a nuisance.

And it's absolutely fine on live action DVD's. So I've got nothing, just thought I'd share and bask in the pain.

[Daravon]

Good to know, anyway.

[Tyrdium]

Try using Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/) to play your DVDs.