Event Coverage

Computex Taipei 2006 - Part 5

By Zachary Chan - 9 Jun 2006

NVIDIA PureVideo HD

NVIDIA PureVideo HD

With their partners all showcasing the GeForce 7950 GX2 and nForce 590 SLI, NVIDIA's own presence in Computex this year was more focused on the video processing aspect of the upcoming HD content wars.

NVIDIA today launched and update to their PureVideo technology called PureVideo HD, which now supports HD DVD and Blu-ray hardware content decoding. PureVideo HD will also feature two new post-processing technologies: Edge enhancement and Noise reduction.

More HD-ready notebooks from various manufacturers that are all using NVIDIA's PureVideo HD solution. Among them are the Toshiba Qosmio G30 and the Acer Aspire 9000 series.

The nefarious Sony Vaio AR Blu-ray notebook at NVIDIA's booth playing 'real' Blu-ray content. Yes, we checked.

The Vaio RC desktop is a Blu-ray enabled home theater system with a GeForce 7600 GT, which should also support PureVideo HD.

Partner graphics cards that are not the GeForce 7950 GX2, which are HDCP ready and have HDMI ports. Seen here is the Gigabyte GeForce 7300 GS.

Another manufacturer with HDMI onboard a mid-range board that was displayed is an MSI GeForce 7600 GT.

NVIDIA will also be enabling HD content on mobile devices with their MobileMedia Platform featuring the latest GoForce 5500. Of course, this is just a demo, not a really huge ugly naked mobile device.

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