![]() The issues were very well pronounced on the Friends disc, which indicates that Apple could be relying completely on encoding flags to determine what methods of de-interlacing to apply to the source content. In fact, DVD playback under OS X exhibited combing artifacts just about everywhere, not just in our specific tests. ![]() The problem with the default OS X DVD decoder extends far beyond the very specific cases that we used in our PureVideo review. ![]() Historically, Apple has done their best to make sure that the user experience (outside of 3D games) was identical between ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards, which is part of the reason for Apple-bundled video cards not exposing vendor-specific control panels like under Windows. One very likely possibility is that Apple handles the DVD decoder development, rather than letting ATI and NVIDIA provide separate DVD decoders for their GPUs. As you can see from the screenshots below, Apple's DVD decoder is clearly not of the same quality as ATI's DVD decoder on the PC - despite the fact that the hardware is the same across the two platforms.
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