I first noticed this problem while playing Purple Storm (HKL PAL) on my X-Box. It's a problem with lots of blacks and shadows on screen. For instance, in Purple Storm whenever there would be a dark or night-time scene, all of the dark colors looked extremelely low-quality. I don't quite know how to explain it, but it looked like there were small to large patches of dark blue and other dark colors mixed in with what should have been a pure black image. I tried this with some of my other DVDs and I noticed the same problem. First with Cowboy Bebop and the problem was as bad as Purple Storm, especially in the episode "Toys in the Attic" where they had a lot of shadows present. Then I popped in my Episode I DVD and noticed a similar problem at the title scroll and when they showed large portions of space and darkness. It wasn't as big of a problem, but I could clearly see a ton of tiny blue patched scattered all across the image. I never noticed this before, but that was probably because I used to have a really small and crappy 20 inch T.V. where everything was a bit blurry. I recently bought a nice 25 inch Panasonic T.V. and started to notice these problems more frequently. Although, Purple Storm had the same problem on my old 20 inch T.V. So, I thought that it might have been my X-Box's fault, but when I played Rush Hour on my PS2 I noticed the same problem. This only happens when I play DVDs on those systems; video games look great. Does anybody have any idea as to what the problem is?

1. X-Box may not be as particularly good as a dedicated DVD player.

2. Most likely, you have not calibrated your TV's brightness/picture/black-level settings. If the setting is too bright, you're going to notice these things, but by turning the levels down, your picture will appear normal.

Every DVD I have watched on X-box has never been as good as on a regular DVD player. Gaming systems shoudl be used for that..gaming. I suggest getting a regular DVD player which will give you perfect images and easy to change settings.