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NEW! HD HQV Benchmark

post #1 of 4
6/8/07 at 2:44pm
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Wondering how well your present 1080p display is doing???

Wonder no more ...NEW! HD HQV Benchmark

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(from HQV Silicon Optix website) ...

With the increasing demand for 1080p-capable products, Silicon Optix is introducing the newly-released HD HQV Benchmark, a disc that provides the tools required to evaluate the picture quality of various high definition products, such as your HDTV, monitor, video scaler, HD-DVD player, Blu-ray player, projector or AV receiver.

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NOTE: This is NOT A CALIBRATION Disc, ... the following quote is from "Testing & Scoring Guide for the HD HQV Benchmark: Document (page 2)"

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HD HQV Benchmark, a very powerful evaluation tool that has been developed with the help of some of the premier home theater publications. It’s designed to put your HD display, HD DVD player, Blu-ray player, or video scaler through a video obstacle course; one that that will reveal a lot about the quality of the video signal processing in these components.

Phil
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post #2 of 4
6/9/07 at 4:12am

Re: NEW! HD HQV Benchmark

this bad boy will separate the men from the boys when it comes to 1080i deinterlacing, I just wish they offered a combo pack of the BD and HD

-Gary
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post #3 of 4
6/12/07 at 10:27am

Re: NEW! HD HQV Benchmark

Looks like fun.

For the curious...the SD & HD products range from $20 to $30 (before the coupon discounts).
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post #4 of 4
6/20/07 at 10:10am
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Re: NEW! HD HQV Benchmark

I received my HD HQV Benchmark yesterday, and here's the results ...

DISPLAY: Toshiba 62HM196 62" DLP 1080p HDTV
PLAYER: Toshiba HD-A1 (HDMI)

HD NOISE REDUCTION =.................................. 25 PASSED**
HD VIDEO RESOLUTION LOSS =...................... 20 PASSED
VIDEO RECONSTRUCTION 1 = ......................... 10 PASSED (Jaggies - 3 bars, De-Interlacing)
VIDEO RECONSTRUCTION 2 = ......................... within ±10-degree PASSED (Jaggies- 1 rotating bar vs. angle, De-Interlacing)
FILM RESOLUTION LOST TEST SMPTE = ......... 0 FAILED*** (Vertical bands strobing / boxes with the stripped horizontal lines)
FILM RESOLUTION LOST TEST - STADIUM = ... 10 (PASSED*** - No moiré or flickering in the upper stands)

**Toshiba 62HM196 DNR Control = HIGH (previously OFF. I finally could see it's effectiveness with HD HQV Benchmark - see The Perfect Vision article below)

*** According to HQV Testing & Scoring Guide, since the 62HM196 Failed the 1st FILM RESOLUTION LOST TEST, ... the 62HM196 will "Fail" the 2nd FILM RESOLUTION LOST TEST - STADIUM, ... which my 62HM196 PASSED!!!

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Whatever Toshiba is doing, the 62HM196 video processor can (to a degree - by passing the 2nd FILM RESOLUTION LOST TEST - STADIUM) identify the source cadence and apply the proper inverse cadence to recreate the original 1080p image. Also, Toshiba's video processor in my 62HM196 can properly recognize the source type and apply the right de-interlacing to achieve the full 1080p image.

My results coincides with The Perfect Vision Winter 2007 review & benchmark results with the Toshiba 72HM196 HDTV ...

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(pg. 84)
Digital noise reduction was somewhat effective- a setting of high offered some improvement over off, and it didn't degrade the picture, so I left it on. The processor picked up 3:2 pull-down reliably, but not so quickly.

The same was true for a 3:2-pulldown test clip in 1080i from HD DVD. However, once it did lock on, the clip looked exceptionally smooth, leading me to suspect that it must be performing inverse telecine instead of motion-adaptive deinterlacing. Rather than trying to compensate for the extra unpaired fields in a 1080i/60 signal, inverse telecine simply discards those extra fields and reconstructs the original film frames using only matched pairs of fields.

I Highly recommended this HQV Benchmark HD DVD (& Blu-ray HQV)! It can show you how GREAT (or not) your 1080p HDTV display is!!!

The question is, ... Do You Want To Know???

Phil
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