ATI and nVidia crush high-end DVD players

Conclusion

We can be very clear in our conclusions; there is no need to invest $ 2000 or more in a high-end DVD player. A PC with a recent graphics card will produce a much better result for a lot less money. When looking at the final scores of the HQV test, both ATI and nVidia graphics cards perform a lot better than any DVD player we have tested. We would go as far as to say to get rid of your DVD player and connect a media centre PC to your LCD television!

The HQV test do show that ATI has a slight advantage over nVidia, mainly due to the excellent results in the cadence tests. With a total score of 118 points ATI is only surpassed by the 4000 dollar Denon DVD player that scored 130 points in the tests. If we only look at tests that are representative for the European market nVidia has a slight advantage over ATI.

Another conclusion we can draw is that both companies have mastered motion adaptive deinterlacing and noise reduction. nVidia offers better possibilities to adjust the overall sharpness of the image, but ATI does handle badly authored DVD’s better. We cannot appoint a clear winner from these tests, but we can say that a PC can be seen as a worthy replacement for a DVD player.