Post by dkennedy on Nov 7, 2006 7:21:01 GMT -5
NVIDIA releases new drivers featuring PureVideo HD
November 6, 2006
By Richard Lawler, HD Beat Magazine
NVIDIA, like Intervideo, wants to help you build that next Blu-ray or HD DVD drive-equipped media PC, and has released new ForceWare drivers for GeForce 7-series graphics cards to enable PureVideo HD acceleration.
It'll take plenty of processing power to move that HD video, with a recommended minimum of a dual core processor and 1GB of RAM.
An early look at a PureVideo HD-powered setup confirmed that on PCs, unless ICT is enabled, you will be able to play back AACS-protected discs at full resolution over VGA.
DVI connections without HDCP support on the graphics card and monitor get nothing, but HDCP support on both ends enables full resolution playback in any situation.
NVIDIA has also launched an nZone store with links to all the graphics cards, monitors and software one could ever need -- how nice of them.
Since tests showed even on a Core 2 Duo system high bitrate h.264-encoded files were chugging without assistance, we see a system upgrade in your future.
More reading...
NVIDIA PureVideo HD with HD-DVD Quick Shot
www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_purevideo_hd_preview/page7.asp
NVIDIA Enables an Outstanding HD DVD and Blu-Ray Movie Experience with Newly Released NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
www.nvidia.com/object/IO_36814.html
November 6, 2006
By Richard Lawler, HD Beat Magazine
NVIDIA, like Intervideo, wants to help you build that next Blu-ray or HD DVD drive-equipped media PC, and has released new ForceWare drivers for GeForce 7-series graphics cards to enable PureVideo HD acceleration.
It'll take plenty of processing power to move that HD video, with a recommended minimum of a dual core processor and 1GB of RAM.
An early look at a PureVideo HD-powered setup confirmed that on PCs, unless ICT is enabled, you will be able to play back AACS-protected discs at full resolution over VGA.
DVI connections without HDCP support on the graphics card and monitor get nothing, but HDCP support on both ends enables full resolution playback in any situation.
NVIDIA has also launched an nZone store with links to all the graphics cards, monitors and software one could ever need -- how nice of them.
Since tests showed even on a Core 2 Duo system high bitrate h.264-encoded files were chugging without assistance, we see a system upgrade in your future.
More reading...
NVIDIA PureVideo HD with HD-DVD Quick Shot
www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_purevideo_hd_preview/page7.asp
NVIDIA Enables an Outstanding HD DVD and Blu-Ray Movie Experience with Newly Released NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
www.nvidia.com/object/IO_36814.html