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DVD Benchmark - Special Report
- Written by Don Munsil and Stacey Spears
- Published on 31 March 2001
We first wrote about the Chroma Upsampling Error (CUE) back in April, 2001. At that time, we only told you half the story (because we had not worked out the second half yet)...
DVD Benchmark - Part 3 - Functionality
- Written by Stacey Spears
- Published on 30 September 2000
What we covered in Parts 1 and 2 are the most commonly looked at aspects of DVD players. In Part 3 we take a look at another area of performance that I believe has been seriously neglected by everyone, including us (up until now)...
DVD Benchmark - Part 2 - Audio
- Written by Colin Miller
- Published on 31 August 2000
There's the old audiophile myth that measurements don't mean anything because something can measure the same, yet sound vastly different. If you take the specs provided by most manufacturers as measurements...
DVD Benchmark - Part 4 - Usability
- Written by Evan Upchurch
- Published on 30 September 2000
Introduction to the Benchmark Tests
- Written by Staff
- Published on 31 August 2000
On May 13 and 14, 2000, Secrets hosted its first DVD player Benchmark Event (Shootout I) in Redmond, Washington, where we tested numerous DVD players as to their video, audio, functional, and usability qualities. Audio Precision and Tektronix instrumentation were employed to gather extremely accurate data.
DVD Benchmark - Part 5 - Progressive Scan DVD
- Written by Don Munsil and Brian Florian
- Published on 30 September 2000
It has long been our feeling that one can learn much more about the quality of a DVD player by watching lousy DVD movie material than you can learn by watching great material. Great material tends to look fine on just about every player...
The Technical Topics Archives
- Written by Staff
- Published on 05 July 2000
Visit the Secrets of Home Theater & High Fidelity Technical Topics Archives .
DVD Benchmark - Part 1 - Video
- Written by Stacey Spears
- Published on 31 August 2000
Let's start with a little technical information on DVD. I am never really sure how much to cover and how technical to get. I will do my best to make things as easy as possible for everyone to understand...
