I'm trying to find the best way to play my ripped movies (which are in full DVD format on my hard drive with menus and all) on my 720p Vizio HDTV. For the sound, I've got an M-Audio Transit outputting digital optical to my Marantz SR5003 connected to a pair of Polk LSi9s. I think I've got the sound figured out. For the picture though, I'm having some trouble. I have a laptop and it seems that the picture coming from the VGA connection is fuzzy. (It's way worse than streaming Netflix's HD content over my Xbox 360 connected using VGA).
I know I could rip the movies to DVD-DLs and play them using an upconvert DVD player but that would take a lot of time and money. I'm unsure as to why the quality is lacking. Is it the connections, the video card (which is built into the motherboard = cheap), or the program I am using to play the DVDs. Does the computer software instruct the computer to do the conversion process, or is it the hardware?
Would using a Grand HD Cinema USB to HDMI converter allow my receiver to do the processing? Or would the computer still do it? (If the computer did it I would assume the quality would stay the same.)
gizmodo.com/5141876/grand-hd-cinema-converts-usb-to-hdmi
Please help me out on this issue.
Thanks so much!
