30" cinema display video quality

Just wondering. Maybe its just me but the video quality on the 30" when I'm playing a dvd isn't the greatest. I was expecting a lot more. The image is quite pixelated. Is it the monitor or the dvd or the G5 or everything. I would have thought a monitor would have superior image quality over any other screen.

please realize that DVD's use a resolution of 720x480, your 30" display is 2560x1920 or something like that, so when you are running a DVD full screen of course it is not going to look to hot.
That is just how it goes unfortunately.
Unless you have it connected to a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player, etc. runnint at 1080p (1920x1080) DVD's are not going to look like they would on a lower resolution TV.
Until they release DVD's at a resolution of 2560x1920 or higher, you aren't going to see super quality video from a DVD, on that display.
hope that answers your question. it is not just you either, DVD's don't look very good on basically any computer screen out their actually, the resolution is just much much lower unfortunately.

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