Our next shot is a well-lit outdoor close-up. Continuing with the theme, we again see ATI offering an image with no jaggies, but also a slight blurrines in comparison to NVIDIA, Sony, and HQV processing, which offers more conservative image enhancement without the artifacts.
The PlayStation 3 continues to offer a strong showing, and again we feel that the PS3 slightly outperforms the HQV and PureVideo solutions when it comes to sharpness. Pay close attention to Johnny Depp’s eyes. Once again though, upsampled DVD is still no match for a native Blu-ray disc.
ATI Avivo HD
NVIDIA PureVideo HD
Silicon Optix HQV
Sony PS3
Blu-ray
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If you look at the third triangle in the lower right corner, you can see that the PS3 is the sharpest of the bunch when it comes to DVD upsampling.