Re: Is NVIDIA PureVideo a success?

From: Curious (curious_at_like2.know)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:42:37 -0800

I am pleased to read your post maybe some of the NVIDIA marketing is
correct and 6600 or better users will no longer need to use 3rd party
applications to get great DVD or high resolution display output.
"Nathan" <ngrayson@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:uLAxd46LFHA.2492@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I can't make an apples to apples comparesion on purevideo support because I
>bought my 6600GT right when the new drivers were released, but the picture
>with purevideo is beautiful. I was using a 5200fx before connected via VGA
>to a 40 inch LCD. Now I have a MSI 6600gt connected via DVI to it and I
>followed NVIDIA instructions on treating the monitor as a HDTV and set
>output to 720p. DVD's look fantastic in MediaCenter and live tv looks
>better that before.
>
> Nathan
> "Curious" <curious@like2.know> wrote in message
> news:OhTm2f0LFHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Now that NVIDIA has released the 71.84 drivers as supported PureVideo
>> drivers replacing the Beta drivers previously available. It would be
>> interesting to get user feedback as to how well the GF 6600 or better
>> cards using this driver and using DVD Decoder 1.067 actually do in
>> converting 480i DVDs and TV video to 480p using 3:2 pull down, jagged
>> edge motion deinterlacing and other techniques and then upscaling these
>> images, if appropriate, to the high resolutions available with high
>> resolution PC LCD monitors or with HDTV TVs.
>> Does anyone have experiences that they want to share about their PQ
>> improvements if any with the supported configuration.
>>
>
>

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