The guys at THG have done their homework & have posted the results of their comparison of AVIVO & PureVideo. These are the two technologies touted by ATi & nVidia that "improve your video viewing experience." Do either of them actually do anything? If so, which is the better choice?

"The areas we'll look at are DVD playback quality, CPU utilization and even video encoding acceleration. But more importantly, we focus on how to get everything to work - because if you don't know how to enable these great enhancements, all the comparisons in the world aren't worth a bag of beans."