Graphics card or DVD player?

Currently most computers come with a DVD drive. So can the quality of the movies shown on the computer be equal to the ones still sold outside the electronics store?

Evaluating animation quality is a perceptual issue for everyone, so Hardware.Info did an experiment comparing two graphics cards with 12 dedicated DVD players supporting HDMI on the same screen. Samsung 24-inch LCD screen.

The results of the test showed that desktop computers, in turn, used two ATI Radeon X1900XTX graphics cards running Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 and nVidia GeForce 7900GTX running Pure Video software (these are included with the card) ), for better video quality than DVD players.

But the test group relied mostly on HQV benchmark DVD, this program needs a person to evaluate each test to determine the quality of the film, leading to a sense of the evaluation results.

Not surprisingly, two ATI graphics cards and nVidia were far ahead of DVD players with scores of 118 and 93 respectively, while the highest-rated DVD player, Panasonic DVD-S97, cost $ 250 (this price is applied for sale online) only reached 68 points.

The final conclusion of the test group is based on the image quality assessment that people should 'throw' their DVD player and invest in an entertainment center inside the PC.

But there are still dozens of reasons for choosing a DVD player instead of buying a powerful PC in entertainment, such as turning it on and off easily without having to wait for the PC to start up, simple controls (especially with one remote) . And moreover, to invest in one of the two tested cards here you will have to spend about $ 550 (in Vietnam), a number that says many things.

HOANG TUNG