Front row flickers constantly

Hi there,
I've recently made the conversion from pc to mac and bought a 20"imac with a 256 mb graphics card. Everything is okay aprt from when I try and launch frontrow. The display flickers really badly, the same happens when I play movies. However whenever I play a dvd not in frontrow ie just through iDVD, there is no flicker at all.
Is there anything I can do at all?

I personally have not experienced it. Since it only affects some models, I don't know if it is the video card, or not, but it sounds like it.
Here is an article from CNet about this: http://news.com.com/Displayproblem+affecting+some+InteliMacs/2100-1006_3-6037808.html

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I'm running Front Row on a MacBook and trying to stream video from an iMac.
Both computers are connected with ethernet.
Front Row rebuffers every 10 minutes or so when I try to stream a video with a high bit rate, 4622 kbps for example.
The video is 45 minutes in length and takes only 4 - 5 minutes to copy between the two computers.
Activity Monitor indicates a transfer rate of approximately 10 MB/s when copying the file.
When streaming the file in Front Row, however, Activity Monitor indicates a transfer rate of approximately 500 KB/s. It also takes approximately 1 minute before it starts playing at all.
A video with a bit rate of 4622 kbps should require a transfer rate of 578 KB/s just to keep up.
Why does Front Row utilize so little network bandwidth? Are there any settings I can tweak? I'm frustrated that I need to copy the file over to the MacBook to watch it when Front Row should be more than capable of streaming it over the network.
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Confirming the Front Row issue - Activity Monitor reports a maximum of ~530 KB/s when streaming a 4900 kbps movie (wirelessly). The movie takes a while to load, and rebuffers throughout.
Streaming from iTunes didn't work at all.
I also tried streaming the same movie to an AppleTV (wirelessly). Activity Monitor now reported 4+ MB/s, the movie played instantaneously, and it never rebuffered.

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Command + Escape
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
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