Slow video on external monitor in fullscreen

Hey guys,
I'm running a 24 inch cinema display external off the old generation Macbook. Recently, my 120 gb hard drive locked up and I had to replace it with a newer 500 gb drive (which I outfitted with the same software I had on my old drive). I used to be able to run movies full screen on my cinema display (with the old drive) with no problems. I could watch youtube and downloaded movies in full screen and full quality: life was awesome (with both displays, the laptop and the external, simultaneously running).
Now... full screen is awful. Its choppy and annoying to watch on the cinema display. They work fine when you shrink the video to half the size of the screen, but the quality suffers noticeably once you go past this limit.
Full screen DOES work on the laptop display, though. It just seems like an enormous waste of $600 to not use the external.
Does anyone know how I can rescue the fullscreen quality that I had in my old setup? It doesn't make sense that replacing my old hard drive with a new one (with superior memory capacity and speed) should hinder the utility of my external monitor.
Please help!

This is happening because video goes full screen on the primary display ..
to change follow these simple steps
* Open System Preferences
* Click on the Display icon
* Click on the ‘Arrangement’ tab
* Click and hold on the white bar at the top of the current primary display
* Drag the white bar across to the monitor you want to set as the new primary display for your Mac
I hope this helps

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