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ArcSoft's TotalMedia Theatre can do GPU-processed DVD upscaling

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PLEASE no BS.

This means a lot to me because I tried everything to get normal DVD/AVI's to look good from PC to a 1080P 46" TV.

When I say everything I mean bar buying a hardware box to do this, that's software inc VLC/MPC/FFDSHOW etc etc.


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" To compliment NVISION 08 accordingly ArcSoft has just announced that its TotalMedia Theatre media player has received support for Nvidia CUDA and is able to use GeForce GPU power to upscale DVDs. By using the CUDA-enabled SimHD post processing technology TotalMedia Theatre is said to deliver a close-to-HD video from the standard definition multimedia files and DVDs, something that certainly gives a bit more value to that discrete GPU.

"The newly released, CUDA-powered SimHD technology is available in TotalMedia Theatre to allow viewers to obtain a HD-like viewing experience from not only DVDs, but also other standard definition multimedia files," said George Tang, ArcSoft Vice President and General Manager of Video and Home Entertainment Group. "We are pleased to be partnering with NVIDIA to deliver excellence in high-definition video on the PC."

The CUDA-ready TotalMedia Theatre player works with GeForce 8 and 9 series cards (no GTX 200 apparently) and is now showcased at NVISION 08 (booth 220). ArcSoft will deliver TotalMedia Theatre with SimHD technology in Q4. "



http://www.tcmagazine.info/comments.php?shownews=21439&catid=3


Would seem CUDA just gets better and better. :D
 
Wow , converts Dvd to "close to HD" , thats me sold

Personally , I get pretty decent results from gb pvr on my 50" 1080p plasma

But I would try something else if it gave better results
 
my projector does pretty good upscaling/image enhancing from DVD to HD - along with having it professionally calibrated for 6500K color did wonders. You can tell its not HD when looking at the detailing - but things like lines/edges are clear and sharper with good definition instead of a stepped look etc. which helps to bring the overall quality up.
 
Don't see how this is any different to how DVDs are upscaled to your native monitor resolution when you switch to fullscreen on a bog standard media player (e.g. wmp, mpc, vlc player).

Unless it has some sort of magical algorithm that can restore missing data, then this is gonna be pretty much the same thing.
 
titaniumx3 said:
Don't see how this is any different to how DVDs are upscaled to your native monitor resolution when you switch to fullscreen on a bog standard media player (e.g. wmp, mpc, vlc player).

Unless it has some sort of magical algorithm that can restore missing data, then this is gonna be pretty much the same thing.
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Because is looks crap on a 1920x1080 46" TV.

There is nothing yet at a software level that can do it properly, and someone mentioned his Plasma above, well how many Plasma's are even output to 1920x1080P ?.

You can mess with FFDShow for hours and it wont look decent IMO.
 
Reads to me like it's going to do something like ffdshow (sharpening, upscaling etc) but in hardware to reduce the monster CPU requirements ffdshow needs if you turn everything up. Pretty exciting stuff if it works as my HTPC's x2 4400 can't hope with ffdshow on anything more than a basic upscale.
 
It should be out round about now.

and what with CS4 using the GPU, 2009 is going to be a good year.
 
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