Benchmark Reviews

Maximum PC -December 2005
I´ve been looking for a benchmark that will enable me to objectively measure a videocard´s video performance, too. The HQV Benchmark DVD delivers just what I need.

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Ultimate AV - August 2005
HQV Benchmark Now Available to Consumers By Scott Wilkinson
Silicon Optix, has now made its HQV Benchmark test DVD available to consumers. HQV Benchmark lets anyone objectively evaluate the picture quality of various video products, including HDTVs, DVD players, and video scalers before the purchase.

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Residential Systems - August 2005
Silicon Optix has now made its HQV Benchmark test DVD available on the web for $30. Residential Systems readers can purchase the DVD for a discounted price of $20. HQV Benchmark lets anyone objectively evaluate the picture quality of various video products, including HDTVs, DVD players, and video scalers before the purchase.

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About.com - July 2005
HQV Technology-Benchmark DVD-Product Of The Week By: Robert Silva
With the Silicon Optix HQV Benchmark DVD, even the average consumer has the ability, viewing a series of tests and scoring the results, to find out whether or not their television, DVD player, or an external video processor/scaler is delivering the performance that it claims to deliver on paper.

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AV Guide Monthly - April 2005
Review of Panasonic/Toshiba head to head By: Randy Tomlinson
“Internal scaler and deinterlacing circuitry was tortured with the Silicon Optix test disc, and (with a 480i DVD player source) the Panasonic once again came out ahead and the Toshiba last.”
Ultimate AV - March 2005
Mitsubishi PD-5050 Plasma Monitor By: Pete Putman
“Progressive material at 24fps was as smooth as one could expect—the Silicon Optix HQV Video Benchmark DVD has a nice test for film-mode lockup, and the PD-5050 caught the change to 3:2 quickly every time. The panel´s problems lay in scan-line artifacts; this monitor had plenty of them using its own de-interlacing circuitry, as revealed by the waving flag and two "jaggies" tests on the HQV Video Benchmark DVD. This will be a problem with any 480i source (even component). The panel looks much, much better with 480p sources (such as my Panasonic RP56 DVD player) and a decent outboard video scaler.”
Ultimate AV - February 2005
Sharp SD-HX500 Digital AV Receiver and Universal Player By: Michael Fremer
“I put on Digital Video Essentials, then the Silicon-Optix HQV Benchmark test disc, to check out the Sharp DVD player´s processing and deinterlacing capabilities…Overall, I found the SD-HX500´s picture quality and deinterlacing capabilities adequate, though not as good as those of the Camelot Technologies Round Table DVD player. Again, given that the Camelot is a DVD player only at roughly five-times the Sharp´s price, this is not surprising.”
Ultimate AV - February 2005
RCA Screnium HD61THW263 By: Pete Putman
“The internal composite video processing is quite good, although the 3:2 cadence detection and film detail isn´t. Using the Silicon Optix HQV Video Benchmark DVD, I saw plenty of problems with film detail and moderate to severe interlacing artifacts”
Ultimate AV - February 2005
Panasonic - PT-AE700U By: Pete Putman
“Both the waving-flag sequence from VE and the racecar and spinning-bar test pattern from the Silicon Optix benchmark DVD revealed lots of scan-line artifacts.”
Ultimate AV - January 2005
Mitsubishi HC2000 By Pete Putman
“To check out the HC2000´s 480i inputs, I put my timeworn copy of the Video Essentials test DVD to work, along with a new Benchmark DVD from Silicon Optix that has some particularly tough tests for deinterlacing and motion interpolation.”
Ultimate AV - January 2005
Aquos LC-45GX6U By Pete Putman
And the deinterlacing was good, the waving-flag sequences from VE and the Silicon Optix reference DVD being displayed essentially clean of scan-line artifacts.
Digital TV - December 2004
Fujitsu 1080P LCD By: Mike Wood
“New test patterns from a DVD put out by processor manufacturer Silicon Optix show that the AVM 2 has excellent low-angle interpolation, which means diagonal lines are smooth at anything but near-horizontal angles. The processor’s only downfall is that is has trouble with odd frame sequences…”
New York Times - December 2004
DVD Player Shout Out By: Wilson Rothman
“The Silicon Optix disc (available to consumers early next year at www.hqv.com) was full of two-minute exercises for the DVD player. A spinning white bar became jagged as it neared a horizontal attitude, unless the processor could counteract the problem. A flapping American flag revealed a new set of "jaggies" to overcome. There were tests for detail, tests for noise and tests for the film-to-video conversion.”
Ultimate AV - December 2004
JVC HD-52Z575 By: Michael Fremer
“as well as one highlighting jaggies from a test disc handed out by video-processing company Silicon Optix, 3:2 pulldown and other processing produced acceptable results that were no better or worse than from other sets I´ve seen at or near $4500.”
Video Systems - December 2004
Judging Quality – HQV By: Jeff Sauer
“Silicon Optix is also educating the buying public as to what is important to look for in a display and ideally for Realta, what to deman from the end product designers.”
Designtechnica - November 2004
Toshiba 52HM84 By: Dennis Barker
“Test grids from…Silicon Optix’s HQV Benchmark DVD Ver.1.0 certainly confirmed what my eyes were telling me, that image clarity was right on the mark. Color bars, for example, were in perfect alignment with no coloring bleeding between colors. As well, the lines between colors were straight and true with no jagged edges. Grayscale transformed itself from light to dark seamlessly. Test patterns clearly re-affirmed image clarity with image resolution!”
ExtremeTech - October 2004
Samsung LP-P468W (46-inch LCD) By: Dave Salvator
“We also fired up the Silicon Optix HQV Benchmark DVD, and looked at its test patterns, running the DVD player in both progressive and interlaced output modes… On the HQV DVD Benchmark, the Samsung´s video processor did quite well, handling jaggies tests and noise reduction quite well.”
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