Nvidia Announces PureVideo Technology - Computing News - Designtechnica News
Nvidia Announces PureVideo Technology
�The personal computer has never been well-regarded for its abilities to deliver high-quality video playback,� said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. �The GeForce 6 Series with PureVideo technology finally merges the flexibility of the PC platform with the capabilities of high-end consumer electronics to give consumers more choice over how they experience video.�Get the full story here.Key features of PureVideo include:
- High-definition MPEG-2 Hardware Acceleration. A dedicated 16-way vector processor enables smooth playback of HD video with minimal CPU usage.
- WMV High-definition Hardware Acceleration. Programmable support of the newest format enabled by Microsoft Windows Media Player and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 for fluid playback of WMV and WMV HD content.
- High-quality Real-time Video Recording. An advanced motion-estimation engine makes it possible to record in real-time without a loss in quality.
- Spatial / Temporal Adaptive De-Interlacing. Experience interlaced content from satellite, cable, and DVD feeds in full detail and without jagged edges or artifacts.
- 3:2 Pull-down Correction and �Bad Edit� Correction�. Restore video to its original 24fps film format to experience a crystal clear picture, frame after frame.
- Flicker-free Multi-Stream Scaling. High-quality 4-tap by 5-tap scaling maintains image detail, even when scaling a small video to a large area of the screen.
- Display Gamma Correction. Automatic format detection adjusts the color quality of video playback so that it is not too dark, overly bright or washed out, regardless of the display."
