By Staff, March 1, 2005
Silicon Optix, a chip manufacturer who last year acquired Teranex, is seeking to leverage Teranex's professional image processing software through its Realta chip and industry HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) processing.
Silicon Optix turned to Orlando-based post-production consultant and interactive media developer Oliver Peters to develop a benchmark testing DVD. This disc can be used to compare and evaluate various DVD players, video processors anddisplay systems. The HQV Benchmark was designed to be an objective test for any manufacturer's processing systems
. The disc is made up of test patterns and sequences, as well as many simulated broadcast images, designed to highlight real-world issues like noise reduction, aliasing artifacts, various film cadences and video elements composited over film. In addition to these tests, Peters wrote and produced an introduction and tutorial section intended to educate consumers and industry reviewers about why image processing is a critical element of any display, what the tests measure and how to make an objective evaluation.
More information about the benchmark DVD is available at www.HQV.com.
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