HQV Benchmark: Now available in both NTSC and PAL formats!

HQV Benchmark

The HQV Benchmark is a powerful image quality testing tool for your next Plasma, LCD, RPTV or Front Projector HDTV. It’s designed to put your HDTV, monitor, video scaler, DVD Player, projector or AV receiver through a grueling video obstacle course, one that will reveal much about its ability to upconvert standard definition footage to high definition. 

The video clips and test patterns on this DVD have been specifically designed to evaluate a variety of interlaced video signal processing tasks including decoding, de-interlacing, motion correction, noise reduction, film cadence detection, and detail enhancement. The ultimate quality of the images that you watch is limited by any, and all of these factors. Only the rarest video processor inside certain HDTV’s can handle all of these tasks successfully! 

Ten test patterns on this DVD provide a thorough workout for your video processor including color bars, two “jaggies” patterns, a waving flag, a static, detailed image; a saturated color image to check for noise reduction, a roller coaster sequence for motion adaptive noise reduction, a test for film detail, a series of tests for film and animation cadences, and a title crawl that mixes film and video elements. 

For each test, you’ll find a brief description of what picture artifacts to look for and how to score the resulting images. So get out your pencil, put on your judge’s hat, insert the HQV Benchmark and start scoring! 

NEW! HD HQV Benchmark

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.

The HD HQV Benchmark, which comes in either HD-DVD or Blu-ray format, is currently being used by expert journalists as a trusted testing tool for product reviews. It is a “must have” for those that are considering purchasing any HD products; or for those who have already purchased HD merchandise and wish to test the performance of their existing products.

Like the standard HQV Benchmark, the high definition counterpart contains video tests and patterns that determine the quality of a product’s HD video signal processing. A set of five tests evaluate quality factors such as HD Noise Reduction, Video and Film resolution loss tests, as well a test for “jaggies”. The tests will reveal enough to help you determine which products thrive as HD contenders; and expose the products that are HD pretenders.

If you’re not familiar with HD testing and terminology, the HD HQV Benchmark provides an introduction, a summary of the tests, as well as an explanation for how to use the testing scorecard.

Soon, you’ll be testing and reviewing products just like the experts!

Ideally, you should perform tests with both the HQV Benchmark and the HD HQV Benchmark to get an overall indicator of how devices will perform with both high definition and standard definition material. 



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