Hello,

I have have a new laptop which has an i3-2348M 2.3 GHz PROCESSOR as well as an Intel HD 3000 graphics card yet its video performance is bad.

Why do I say this? Well, a lot of videos which are perfectly fine show up as if they have been edited by someone who made them look like they were paintings rather than videos. The depth is less. It's hard to put into words but it's almost as if it's drawn instead of filmed.

I also get loss of detail; it's (continuously) "pixelated" where it's like looking at a retro video game. Mario from the 1980s instead of the one we know today.

There's also this thing that happens where say you have a tube which is only lit from one side where the right side is in darkness? Well, there isn't a gradual move from black to whatever color the tube is. Instead there is a blocky LINE of black, then a blocky line of dark grey, then a blocky line of lighter gray and so on until you have the lit part of the tube.

Again it's hard to put into words but if this is a common thing I'm sure it will be recognized.

Why is this the case? I've calibrated the screen carefully four times, I've got the maximum resolution of the screen... Is it just because the screen is of inferior quality? Is it a driver ISSUE?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

1. What is make & model of laptop?
2. What is screen resolution you have set?
3. Are you using Windows 8?Here's the info:

Acer Aspire V3-771

1600x900

Windows 8http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-V3-771G-Notebook.74597.0.html
Scroll down to Display.
Seems like what you see is normal for this model.It's odd as they are critical of the screen's quality yet later on in the review say that it functions fine as a desktop REPLACEMENT which in my opinion it doesn't. I MEAN not as far as video is concerned.

Anyway, thanks for having taken time to reply. I think I'll take the laptop to a local computer shop and talk about it with them to see if it can be fixed.