G4/QS 128 radeon 9200 mac edition & 24" monitor

Hello everyone!I just bough a 24" samsung lcd/tft display.I have the radeon 9200/128 agp card.This card is the PC version,flashed to work in the G4.When I 'm playing a tv show i downloaded and when i choose full screen the black seems to have bloches of purple and small amounts of green.But when i stand back a little it looks more black.When i play it at normal size it looks great.Do i need a bigger and better card to play it on full screen mode? Thanks,John

I think you may have been a little confused by my suggestion...I was not suggesting that you change your monitor setting to 640 x 480 +and leave it+. For example, my monitor is at 1680 x 1050 when I run all my apps and whatnot. When I watch movies, I simply open the movie I want to watch, then change the resolution of my display to the appropriate size and then enter full screen mode in the player. Trust me, the movie will look much much better. Then after I'm done, I switch back to the normal resolution.
This is why the movie looks so good at normal size-it is running at it's native resolution. You need to change your monitor's resolution to that which is the resolution of whatever video it is that you are watching if you want full quality. Yes, this means that there is an unwanted step of changing resolutions back and forth whenever you want to watch videos. But it is worth it if you want to get full quality.
One suggestion if you decided to use this method-if you go to the displays pane in system prefs, there is an option to "show displays in menu bar". If this box is checked, a little monitor icon will be placed in the menu bar to the left of the time. This menu will make it much easier to switch between resolutions you often flip between, so you don't have to constantly open the system prefs window. In the bottom of the menu, there is an option to change the number of recent items so you can have even more resolutions that you use often stored there. It makes changing resolutions much quicker. =)
Trust me this will work - I do it whenever I am watching movies.

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