Since my PS3 died the other day I'm now forced to use my PC as a DVD player and the results are far, far from satisfactory.
Right now I've settled with windows media player because it's the one piece of software that will play DVDs without first needing a download and install procedure, and the resulting image is just extraordinarily bad. There's color dithering galore all over, and the contrast seems off, like the image is darker than it should be - or at least darker than I remember seeing it on the PS3.
The dithering however is the main issue. It's not even regular dithering in some sort of ordered pattern, it actually looks rather like a digital version of VHS color bleed, which gives very bad associations.
Right now I've settled with windows media player because it's the one piece of software that will play DVDs without first needing a download and install procedure, and the resulting image is just extraordinarily bad. There's color dithering galore all over, and the contrast seems off, like the image is darker than it should be - or at least darker than I remember seeing it on the PS3.
The dithering however is the main issue. It's not even regular dithering in some sort of ordered pattern, it actually looks rather like a digital version of VHS color bleed, which gives very bad associations.