NVIDIA PureVideo Technology Brings Home-Theater Quality Video to the PC

**MIG-31** · Dec 20, 2004, 04:29 PM

SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 20, 2004—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced NVIDIA® PureVideo™ technology, a combination of hardware and software technologies designed to raise the bar on the video capabilities of today’s desktop and notebook PCs. The addition of PureVideo technology to the GeForce™ 6 Series of graphics processing units (GPUs) allows for accelerated playback of MPEG-2 and high-definition (HD) video content at home-theater levels of quality, resulting in crisp, vibrant and stutter-free video on any display.

Enabled by a dedicated, programmable video processing engine found on the Company’s award-winning GeForce 6 Series GPUs, PureVideo technology eliminates the trade-off in quality traditionally associated with video on the PC by executing on an advanced set of algorithms typically found in high-end consumer electronics devices. PureVideo technology eliminates the need for separate hardware or chipsets and takes the load off the PC’s multi-purpose central processing unit (CPU) to deliver to consumers, high-quality video playback at resolutions up to 720p and 1080i.
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***Veridian3*** · Dec 20, 2004, 04:34 PM

Quite a few unhappy people wandering around after this announcement... here's a lovely sample discussion i saw...

"Person A: "To fully experience NVIDIA PureVideo technology in GeForce 6
Series GPUs, the following software support is required:

3:2 pull down, MPEG-2 acceleration, and advanced de-interlacing require
the NVIDIA DVD Decoder with Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center
Edition
VMR Scaling requires VMR9 support found in Windows XP Media Center Edition
2005"

Money grabbing, tight-wad bunch of f#!*ers. Ass-wipes.

Person B: Spend 500 for a graphics card and can't afford 20 bucks? Aw well
it really is nice to see mpeg2 1080 with this decoder.

Person A: Wtf has what i can afford got to do with anything?
I could ask do nVidia really need the $20 they are charging for this.
I don't like the way they've handled this at all, it stinks.
I pay for a piece of hardware that advertises certain features and expect
those features to work, but no, first we find out that our new cards don't
actually do everything we've been led to believe they do.

Then when we do eventually get a chance to use some of these features they
have the audacity to charge us for thier own incompetence, we wait this
long for them to sort thier shit out and then they hit with this crap.

20 bucks ain't nothing, this is about principles. You do have those right?

Person C: Yeah I spent the 20 bucks and I was pissed as hell even when I
did do it. But now I'm extremly pissed. I've had these features for the
most part for over a month and then they announce absoletly nothing new.
People want other things besides mpeg2 and wmv. People want encoding.
People are sick of waiting. People deserve these features. But once again
Nvidia screws us. Makes me feel like I bought a 5800. Lol last Nvidia card
any of us should buy again.

Person D: I truly do not believe nVidia treats us early Geforce 6800
customers right by charging 20$ for a promised feature, so I won't buy
their purevideo crap and I will consider this behaviour for my future
upgrade plans.

Person E: i would be pretty pissed if i dropped 500 quid on a card that
doesn't have a feature it's supposed to have. And it's not like it's a
small thing either."

klevo · Dec 20, 2004, 05:09 PM

"I pay for a piece of hardware that advertises certain features and expect
those features to work..."

mike2h · Dec 20, 2004, 05:34 PM

nvidia screwed the pooch agin on this one(beat you to it neon

). the only 68800s this will work with is the rev2 6800 plain. all us 6800 gt & ultra owners are ass out.
then to charge another $20 to get full functionality for the people that can use it?
part of the reason(small part) that i purchased this card was for that functionality. it was included in the purchase price & it looks like i will never get its benefit. they really need to clean up their act on this one.

Danhill · Dec 21, 2004, 06:13 AM

Well that sux for those that needed the card for that feature, its very unproffessional of Nvidia doing this.

suloea · Dec 21, 2004, 12:36 PM

it should be just a driver update. not a seperate software which we need to pay!

Zardon · Dec 21, 2004, 01:09 PM

oh dear, what a mess.

bananaman · Dec 21, 2004, 01:16 PM

it is things like this that will help decide my PCI-E upgrade next year. Nvidia just seem out to screw us (the gamer) where as ATI seem out to help us - even if this is just the result of marketing , then ATI are doing a hell of a lot better job!

nana

Zardon · Dec 21, 2004, 03:08 PM

For those of you interested in doing a little research on this matter:

http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/...0&fpart=1&vc=1

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...8216&forumid=1

dipstick · Dec 21, 2004, 03:51 PM

Yep definitely suxs we have to pay and it doesn't work 100% for most higher-end cards. At least the quality is excellent

Asmoday · Dec 21, 2004, 03:56 PM

Dec 20, 2004, 04:29 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,843 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	NVIDIA PureVideo Technology Brings Home-Theater Quality Video to the PC SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 20, 2004—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced NVIDIA® PureVideo™ technology, a combination of hardware and software technologies designed to raise the bar on the video capabilities of today’s desktop and notebook PCs. The addition of PureVideo technology to the GeForce™ 6 Series of graphics processing units (GPUs) allows for accelerated playback of MPEG-2 and high-definition (HD) video content at home-theater levels of quality, resulting in crisp, vibrant and stutter-free video on any display. Enabled by a dedicated, programmable video processing engine found on the Company’s award-winning GeForce 6 Series GPUs, PureVideo technology eliminates the trade-off in quality traditionally associated with video on the PC by executing on an advanced set of algorithms typically found in high-end consumer electronics devices. PureVideo technology eliminates the need for separate hardware or chipsets and takes the load off the PC’s multi-purpose central processing unit (CPU) to deliver to consumers, high-quality video playback at resolutions up to 720p and 1080i. _______________ Read More: nvidia More Articles: hothardware : pcper : hardwareanalysis __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Dec 20, 2004, 05:34 PM	#4
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,483 Rep Power: 91 System Specs	nvidia screwed the pooch agin on this one(beat you to it neon). the only 68800s this will work with is the rev2 6800 plain. all us 6800 gt & ultra owners are ass out. then to charge another $20 to get full functionality for the people that can use it? part of the reason(small part) that i purchased this card was for that functionality. it was included in the purchase price & it looks like i will never get its benefit. they really need to clean up their act on this one. __________________

Dec 21, 2004, 06:13 AM	#5
Danhill DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 4,112 Rep Power: 0	Well that sux for those that needed the card for that feature, its very unproffessional of Nvidia doing this. __________________ MOBO: [color=white]ASUS A8N-SLI Premium[/color] CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,50 Ghz MEM: 2 x 512 DDR 466, VGA: 2 x 6600 GT in SLI, HDD1: WD Raptor HDD2: Maxtor Diamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, PSU: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

Dec 21, 2004, 01:16 PM	#8
bananaman banana muncher Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London Posts: 1,254 Rep Power: 64	it is things like this that will help decide my PCI-E upgrade next year. Nvidia just seem out to screw us (the gamer) where as ATI seem out to help us - even if this is just the result of marketing , then ATI are doing a hell of a lot better job! nana __________________

Dec 21, 2004, 03:51 PM	#10
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Yep definitely suxs we have to pay and it doesn't work 100% for most higher-end cards. At least the quality is excellent Last edited by dipstick; Dec 21, 2004 at 06:58 PM.

Dec 20, 2004, 04:34 PM	#2
*Veridian3* Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cloaked Posts: 5,028 Rep Power: 181	Quite a few unhappy people wandering around after this announcement... here's a lovely sample discussion i saw... "Person A: "To fully experience NVIDIA PureVideo technology in GeForce 6 Series GPUs, the following software support is required: 3:2 pull down, MPEG-2 acceleration, and advanced de-interlacing require the NVIDIA DVD Decoder with Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center Edition VMR Scaling requires VMR9 support found in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005" Money grabbing, tight-wad bunch of f#!*ers. Ass-wipes. Person B: Spend 500 for a graphics card and can't afford 20 bucks? Aw well it really is nice to see mpeg2 1080 with this decoder. Person A: Wtf has what i can afford got to do with anything? I could ask do nVidia really need the $20 they are charging for this. I don't like the way they've handled this at all, it stinks. I pay for a piece of hardware that advertises certain features and expect those features to work, but no, first we find out that our new cards don't actually do everything we've been led to believe they do. Then when we do eventually get a chance to use some of these features they have the audacity to charge us for thier own incompetence, we wait this long for them to sort thier shit out and then they hit with this crap. 20 bucks ain't nothing, this is about principles. You do have those right? Person C: Yeah I spent the 20 bucks and I was pissed as hell even when I did do it. But now I'm extremly pissed. I've had these features for the most part for over a month and then they announce absoletly nothing new. People want other things besides mpeg2 and wmv. People want encoding. People are sick of waiting. People deserve these features. But once again Nvidia screws us. Makes me feel like I bought a 5800. Lol last Nvidia card any of us should buy again. Person D: I truly do not believe nVidia treats us early Geforce 6800 customers right by charging 20$ for a promised feature, so I won't buy their purevideo crap and I will consider this behaviour for my future upgrade plans. Person E: i would be pretty pissed if i dropped 500 quid on a card that doesn't have a feature it's supposed to have. And it's not like it's a small thing either."

Dec 20, 2004, 05:09 PM	#3
klevo 2 l33t Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Slovakia Posts: 587 Rep Power: 0	"I pay for a piece of hardware that advertises certain features and expect those features to work..."

Dec 21, 2004, 12:36 PM	#6
suloea DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bath,UK Posts: 41 Rep Power: 0	it should be just a driver update. not a seperate software which we need to pay!

Dec 21, 2004, 01:09 PM	#7
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	oh dear, what a mess.

Dec 21, 2004, 03:08 PM	#9
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	For those of you interested in doing a little research on this matter: http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/...0&fpart=1&vc=1 http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...8216&forumid=1

Dec 21, 2004, 03:56 PM	#11
Asmoday Demonic Join Date: May 2002 Location: In the cold, dark north... Posts: 5,198 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	__________________ How You can help Hardwareheaven by using Digg