Nvidia Purevideo HD 1.02.223.G Essential for the Ultimate HD Movie Experience Blu-ray and HD DVD movies are bringing a new level of movie-viewing experience, with high-definition image quality far surpassing standard-definition DVDs. To deliver the ultimate HD movie experience when playing Blu-ray and HD-DVD, NVIDIA developed PureVideo? HD technology, available with NVIDIA® GeForce® Series 7 and 8 GPUs. PureVideo HD technology is the combination of a dedicated video processing core on the NVIDIA GPU and software in the NVIDIA drivers that delivers superb video quality with minimal CPU use and low power consumption when playing Blu-ray or HD DVD discs on a PC. It is the essential ingredient for the ultimate high definition movie and video experience on a PC. Revolutionary New Video Processing Architecture NVIDIA GeForce 8400, 8500, and 8600 GPUs for Desktop and GeForce 8400M, 8600M and 8700M for Notebooks, incorporate a revolutionary new video processing architecture, making them the world?s first GPU video processors to offload 100% of Blu-ray and HD DVDH.264 video decoding from the CPU. This added processing power gives PureVideo HD technology the ability to support more complex features as they are added to Blu-ray and HD DVD movies, including ?picture-in-picture? movies, interactive games and menus, and higher bit-rate / higher quality movie pictures.
