Xbox 360 - Still a Crummy DVD Player

[Shin-Ra]

Xbox 360--Still a Crummy DVD Player

Nope. I just updated the Xbox 360 in the lab and ran it into a TV using the VGA input at 1080p. With this I used the popular HQV DVD test disc, and the Xbox 360 scored a whopping 40. That's out of 130! Rather than show you the whole scoring chart, let me break it down for you: The 360 passed the Color Bars/Vertical Detail test (nearly everything does), the Picture Detail test, and the horizontal and vertical crawls. That's it. It failed every noise reduction, film mode, jaggies, and cadence detection test there is. In nearly every case, it was a clear failure; not…even…close.

Oh, the hi-def situation isn't much better. HQV makes a hi-def test disc for HD DVD and Blu-ray players, and the 360 scores a zero (out of 100). These tests are much simpler, involving simply de-interlacing 1080i content of both regular and film mode content, and noise reduction. It's like nothing is going on there at all.

Ouchies.

[GTsmokeya]

At the rate it burns up on its own I refuse to risk my own at playing dvd's. I am weird like that I wont even play anything other than blu-rays and ps3 games in ps3 just for that reason. I am anal with electronics.

GTsmokeya

[WickyWoo]

This is why I have a standing policy

A game system isa game system
A DVD player is a DVD player
A Blu-ray player is a blu-ray player

And never the twain shall meet

[Corrupteddragon]

Im sorry but anyone that uses a game machine as their dvd player is just being cheap. I can totally understand using a ps3 as a blu-ray player, because the players are not cheap, and the ps3 offeres the best feature set. But a regular dvd player? You can buy a decent one for under $50 if need be.

[BTBuck1]

Funny, it scores a zero yet it still looks awesome to myself and over a hundred thousand others. Look In my sig, I have plenty of good equipment in my house to compare it with. And while it may fail some tests, it still looks every bit as good as my stand alones IMO.


If you won both and compare overall features vs. price and performace the game consoles kick the shit out of the stand alones in just about every category. And the PQ is negligable unless you have uber large screens of probably 90+ inches or a display device that sucks.

[statikcat]

That may be quite bias.. why are they hooking up with VGA? And how can HD-DVD get a zero score? People I know with HD-DVD drive get a fine picture. Maybe not the best but a zero?

I have a 360 and a PS3. I am going to put the same DVD in each tonight both connected HDMI and see if there is any difference. It may be minimal due to upscaling but I doubt any at all. We will see

[BTBuck1]

Originally Posted by statikcat

That may be quite bias.. why are they hooking up with VGA? And how can HD-DVD get a zero score? People I know with HD-DVD drive get a fine picture. Maybe not the best but a zero?

I have a 360 and a PS3. I am going to put the same DVD in each tonight both connected HDMI and see if there is any difference. It may be minimal due to upscaling but I doubt any at all. We will see

because you have people that swear by these test screens, when the reality is most equipment out there fails these tests especially de-interlacing. And yet, they sell millions of TV's, DVD players...etc every year and people are thrilled with the quality they are getting. My philosophy is, I don't care what a test says, I go by what My interpretation what I am seeing says. I can tell a good set without reading a spec sheet, or putting it through a series of test or paying some bozo $500 to "Calibrate" it.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by statikcat

That may be quite bias.. why are they hooking up with VGA? And how can HD-DVD get a zero score? People I know with HD-DVD drive get a fine picture. Maybe not the best but a zero?

I have a 360 and a PS3. I am going to put the same DVD in each tonight both connected HDMI and see if there is any difference. It may be minimal due to upscaling but I doubt any at all. We will see

It's a score that has been devised to make players and TVs without Silicon Optix's HQV processing look bad.

All the points are for features of the HQV processors. Noise reduction (which really isn't needed for Blu-ray), jaggy reduction on motion de-interlacing, etc.

Would the PS/3 get better than zero?

Gary

[Bizdady]

Originally Posted by Corrupteddragon

Im sorry but anyone that uses a game machine as their dvd player is just being cheap. I can totally understand using a ps3 as a blu-ray player, because the players are not cheap, and the ps3 offeres the best feature set. But a regular dvd player? You can buy a decent one for under $50 if need be.

Not saying i watch alot of DVDs on my ps3 but its nice to have the upscaler feature.