Vista - Why is my Video Quality poor?

I recently got Vista and my Video quality is very poor and when i was using
XP it looked great, can anyone tell me whats going on?

Here is a pic of what my video is looking like on Vista:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0914033814.jpg

Did you upgrade your existing XP computer to Vista or did you buy a new
system?
If you bought a new system what graphics card do you have and what
make/model of display are you using over what interface.
From you pic it appears that you are now using a high resolution monitor
with a low resolution input

"Bobafett" <Bobafett@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"JW" wrote:
I did not buy a new system, this is a system I custom built that previously
had XP on it, when I installed Vista I did a Clean install (It also made a
windows.old folder with XP inside) and I havent upgraded any of the hardware
in months, but the Video card is a PCI Express 16x ATI Radeon X800 GTO with
256mb, I had a feeling it might be something with the video card or the video
drivers but I am not sure, If i must I will put XP back on because Im an Avid
Video Watcher and I like my video to look prestine =p. As Always any help is
appreciated.

Download and install the ATI Catalyst 7.9 Drivers appropriate to your OS
(Vista 64-bit or Vista 32-bit):

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

"Bobafett" <Bobafett@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there any possibility that you are running your display at a higher
resolution under Vista then you did under XP?
What DVD decoder where you using under XP?
If you play a recorded TV program using Media Player instead of MC is your
picture quality better?

"Bobafett" <Bobafett@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Im am running the same resolution as I did on XP (1024x1080 LCD) as for the
DVD Decoder I am not sure, it might of been from Nero when I had it on XP (id
have to check) and I have run video through dozens of players and get the
same results. I have a feeling I might know what it is but Im not 100% for
sure as of yet, before I installed a certain program whenever I ran an AVS
Script (Video Editing Script for those who do not know) it asked about a
missing .dll file, Im not sure if this is the problem but if I cant fix this
quickly I might have to go back to XP, which after Using Vista would really
suck.

"JW" wrote: