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I really don't know which forum this question belongs in, because I don't know if it is hardware, software, internet or ? For about the last week, when viewing videos on Hulu, the picture displays squigglying lines and blocks in the black or very dark areas.
It is not a browser problem, because it is the same in 3 different browsers that I've tried. I don't think that it is a plugin problem, because I updated Opera to the latest version of the player, and it still has the same problem. Curiously, IE is using an older version of SWF player, but I have no idea of why, because the only location that I find for it is the same place that Opera uses...\System32\Macromed, and that is the newer version.
Since the problem doesn't exist with my primary computer, that seems to rule out the ISP or Hulu as the culprit. The only thing that I can think of that is different is that the secondary computer accesses the internet via a WIFI adapter, while the primary is hardwired to the router.
If it seems that my thinking is somewhat broad and not focused, that is because it is. How do I pinpoint the problem, so that a solution can be found?
EDIT: What seems even odder is that when I study the larger blocks (don't know if the term artifact is right or not), it is apparent that they are showing a totally different image, as though the proper image is torn and exposing portions of some other image. So far as I could tell, the obscure image is not moving and if it is some part of the movie playing, it is so far out of sync, that it would require several minutes to have elapsed...either forward or backward.