Jason Dunn
12-20-2004, 06:44 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo.html' target='_blank'>http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"NVIDIA PureVideo technology finally allows you to experience lifelike HD-DVD playback on your PC, notebook, or HDTV without the expense of additional home-theater devices. With dedicated hardware to accelerate MPEG-2/DVD as well as the new Microsoft® Windows Media® HD Video (WMV HD) standard, your DVDs come to life in detail never before possible on a PC. The NVIDIA PureVideo processor offloads video decoding from the CPU, resulting in smooth, stutter-free, high-definition video playback. And, since PureVideo supports most current and future HD formats, you can rest assured that a PC powered by PureVideo will keep up with the pace of tomorrow’s video technologies, and continue to deliver HD content well into the future."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/purevideo.jpg" /><br /><br />I'm having a hard time figuring out if there's anything that's genuinely NEW here - is it that through updated drivers for the 6000 series nVidia cards, high-definition WMV content is accelerated through the GPU? I think that might be it - Microsoft's WMV9 HD content took monstrous CPU power to play back, and if I'm reading this correctly, nVidia is now claiming they can pipe the playback through their video card hardware. It's unfortunate this will only work on their 6000 series cards - my 17" laptop has a 5700 series GPU, so I won't be able to take advantage of this. :?