Video - Windows Media Player question

[KitchenWitch]

When viewing video clips on my laptop (P4 2.66 mhz 768 mb RAM NVIDIA Ge Force 4 420 Go video adapter) the picture washes out. Is there anything I can do to change that, or is it a video resolution issue?

Happens on quicktime and real alternative as well.

[SlackJawedYokel]

1. Can you calibrate the monitor at all?

If it happens in all software, it's probably a hardware/OS issue.
If you can'lt calibrate the monitor I'm not sure what options are even available for a laptop.

Cletus

[FormerDittoHead]

2. Check the video settings, esp the "overlay" settings...

Video clips most often use an "overlay" in the video, which is configured differently - check the "advanced" settings and look at all of the tabs and buttons in your display applet in your control panel to find it.

Also, I don't use Windows Media Player anymore, but I recall it does have brightness & contrast settings - check the options, settings, etc. You're probably using a newer version - I couldn't imagine they took those settings out...