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ATI and nVidia Crush High-End DVD Players

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nvidia-smash dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hardware.Info compared the video quality of ATI and nVidia video cards containing Avivo / PureVideo technology with 12 stand alone DVD players, varying in price from $200 to over $2000. The conclusion? '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!'"

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  1. Crushed? by SvetBeard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, those heatsinks are just getting too big!

  2. Uhm by ranton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!'"

    Well, not all of us would buy a $2000 DVD player. I still cannot see the reason to buy anything more expensive than the $250 one I have at home. What do these multi-thousand dollar DVD players do anyway?

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    1. Re:Uhm by zlogic · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Mine cost me something like $20-$30. Works perfectly, plays everything from DVDs (all regions!) to mp3s and jpegs and has Scart, RCA, VGA video output. And 5.1 (or maybe even 7.1!) sound output.
      The only thing I don't like is that the remote control isn't really easy to use for tasks other than play/pause/menu navigation.

    2. Re:Uhm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      They separate the gullible from their money. That is what they do for $2000.

  3. $2000 DVD Players by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The people who buy the $2000 DVD players are the same people that buy gold plated connectors and cut their speaker wires to identical lengths so the "electrons travel the same distance which improves the sound quality". That means: these people are morons. Morons cannot be stopped.

  4. Not a valid comparison for a typical family by ClosedSource · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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!'"

    If you're single and live studio apartment, this might make good economic sense if you really need high end graphics. You can just connect the PC to the TV and continue to use the PC for other purposes.

    But in a typical family environment that media centre PC will have to be dedicated to entertainment purposes, so the real price comparison is the cost of the media PC + the graphics card vs. the high end DVD player. Then the comparison doesn't turn out to be that one-sided.