Targus ACP60 User Manual page 20

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 model notebook vendors have released
BIOS upgrades that resolve a number of ExpressCard related issues
(Lenovo, Fujitsu).
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