Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Xbox 360--Still a Crummy DVD Player
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "ARTICLE" @ 10:00 AM
"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)."
I never thought the DVD playback on my Xbox 360 was spectacular, but I never realized it was quite so bad. Check out this gallery of sample images, and prepared to be appalled. Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" is completely unwatchable, and most of the other discs they tried weren't much better. This should be all the convincing you need to invest in a good upconverting DVD player, like the OPPO DV-981HD. It is for me.
I never thought the DVD playback on my Xbox 360 was spectacular, but I never realized it was quite so bad. Check out this gallery of sample images, and prepared to be appalled. Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" is completely unwatchable, and most of the other discs they tried weren't much better. This should be all the convincing you need to invest in a good upconverting DVD player, like the OPPO DV-981HD. It is for me.
