What do you mean as nicer? To work with or as in picture quality? I did not have the latest version of the ATi DVd player. My card is a Saphhire OEM card. I had a version of NVidea 2.55 from a GForce card. But people on avsforum.com did multiple extensive tests and the nvidea actually fared better in picture quality than the ATI software. The best PQ was WinDVD with all those FDDSHOW filter etc..then came the 2.55 version of nvidea.

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