Targus ExpressCard Notebook Docking Station with Digital Video and Audio
Video
Can I get a higher resolution on my monitor?
• Highest resolution is 1600 x 1200, 32-bit color.
Movie playback is not smooth when played at 1600x1200x32 bit resolution. It is worse when playing a media clip in full screen?
The Targus ExpressCard Docking station is not primarily designed for playing back movie content at maximum resolution and color depth. The best mode for displaying video content is at 1280x1024 (SXGA) resolution or lower.
The reason for this is the large amount of display data being transferred during movie playback. Standard DVD movies are encoded at a resolution of 720x480 (NTSC), and 720x576 for PAL discs. Higher resolution display of the video will result in upscaling the display to the higher resolution, which does not gain any net affect on the playback of the movie.
Ways to improve the smoothness of the movie playback are:
•Reduce the resolution of the display to 1280x1024 with lower color depth (16 Bit Color)
•Terminate any other CPU intensive applications running on the computer.
I cannot play a DVD using the Docking station?
DVD playback is controlled by the DVD playback software and the hardware on your notebook. Many DVD playback software programs are not capable of supporting DVD playback on an external or second- ary monitor. If you encounter problems playing back videos in Extended mode, try switching the Video mode on the Docking station to Primary or Mirror mode.
Unexpected Crashes or power state issues?
Please make sure you have upgraded your system BIOS on your notebook. Several popular notebook vendors have released BIOS upgrades that resolve a number of ExpressCard related issues (Lenovo, Fujitsu).
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