DVD not as clear as was expected

When I play DVDs on my MacBook Pro, it seems like it should be alot clearer. Especially with such a nice display. I can see artifacts here and there, and the picture just doesn't look as crisp as I had expected. Games are fine...they look great. Is there anything I can do about this or is that the way that DVDs play. Would this be a video card issue? Thanks.
firewired

Thanks. I downloaded an HD quicktime clip and it was crystal clear. Must be the DVD compression. I'm glad that it's not my display or my video card. I was kind of hoping for clear DVD playback though. Oh well...HD looks great though. And if you don't look too terribly close, the regular DVDs look pretty nice too. Thanks again.

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Edited by: 962950 on Oct 3, 2012 10:12 AM

rp0428 wrote:
>
string=Normal
delimiter=_crMULT_
tokenizer.nextToken()=No
tokenizer.nextToken()=mal
>
The first delimiter character found in 'Normal' is 'r' so the first token is 'No'.
None of the other delimiter characters was found so the next, and last token is 'mal' since the 'r' was a delimiter and was stripped.The OP's confusion was thinking that the delimiter String was a single, multi-character delimiter, hence my reply.

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