Bad quality in Ext Monitor in new MacBookPro

I have been using a Dell U2410 with an old MacBook (2008) with very good quality.
I have just upgraded to a MacBookPro i7 2,9GHz, but the image quality in the external Monitor is ver bad.
The main problem seems to be lack of contrast (but I'm not an expert). There is a lack of definition in lines and fonts, they even seems to be ligthly 'erased'. Gray color of the windows is very pale when the window has not the focus. In the Safari Window I have opened (when not in focus) the back and forward buttons are nearly mised with the background. I have at the same time the old MacBook open and they are clearly defined. On the other hand the icons in the dock (blues, yellow, grenn) have a deep color and the white letters in the desktop are very well defined.
I have tryed to calibrate but there is no way to make it better.When doing the calibration, in the first step I cannot get the center oval to disspear. The right side never gets different from the left.
Sorry for the vague descriptions. Is there anything I can do to get a better quality from my good monitor?

If you are displaying the whole screen it will look bad and there is no way of avoiding it.
It is caused because your screen is probably 1200 pixels (or more) wide but a DV image is only around 700 pixels wide so you are losing a tremendous amount of detail.
To make matters worse, much of the fine detail on the screen will probably shimmer or flicker because the video is interlaced.
You can reduce this by using the De-interlace Filter but the overall quality of the image will still be poor.
The only way I ever achieved reasonably sharp results was to show no more than half the screen at any one time. If you do that your results will be OK.

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