Mixed film/video

Mixed 3:2 content is the least important feature to test for unless you're watching movies shown on MSNBC or when you have 24 fps film content mixed with 30 fps special effects. Here, ATI and NVIDIA do similarly well. They appropriately de-interlace but fail to apply 3:2 pulldown to the film portions of the screen. XGI doesn't handle mixed content very well at all.

Example of bad mixed film/video

Example of good mixed film/video

Score:
Tied 2nd: ATI and NVIDIA (15 points)
3rd place: XGI (0 points)

Interpretation

You may see artifacts when watching movies on TV on CNN or MSNBC or during the credits sequence with the XGI. You don't see artifacts with the ATI or NVIDIA cards under such conditions, but you still lose half your resolution.

Total HQV Benchmark Scores

ATI Radeon X1800 XL with Catalyst 5.13: 103
"With Catalyst 5.13, ATI becomes the first PC GPU to break the 100 point barrier on the HQV Benchmark DVD. This makes ATI AVIVO an excellent choice for DVD playback."

NVIDIA GeForce 6600: 51
"Still going strong after one year, PureVideo represents a good video solution that provides great image quality with Hollywood films. Although NVIDIA's video deinterlacing was once considered the best among PC solutions with XGI and ATI now offering better diagonal interpolation, NVIDIA PureVideo is due for an update."

XGI Volari 8300: 38
"The XGI's low score on the benchmark is due to the fact that the Volari doesn't handle uncommon scenarios well. But common things are common, and for Hollywood movies and pure interlaced content, it's actually just as competitive as ATI's AVIVO with the exception of noise reduction and static images."