ATI, nVIDIA graphics cards trump dedicated DVD players

Alright, this is definitely pretty interesting. It seems that modern PC video cards offer substantially better video quality than that of stand alone DVD players.

Judging the quality of a moving image is an extremely subjective task, so it’s with a little trepidation that we report on Hardware.Info’s test which compared two graphics cards with twelve dedicated HDMI-enabled DVD players on the same Samsung 24-inch LCD monitor. The tests found that the PC — which alternated between a ATI Radeon X1900XTX running Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 and nVIDIA’s GeForce 7900GTX running the card’s PureVideo software — offered substantially better video quality than the DVD players, but here’s where the subjectiveness comes in: the testers chose to rely entirely on the HQV benchmark DVD — which requires a human to rate each test — to discern the quality of the playback. The test was also exclusively based around the HQV DVD, with not a single “real world” test in sight…. Source: Engadget