PureVideo - hoax or???

epoxy5 · 2 Dec 2006 at 07:39

I saw this over at the Nvidia site when reading about the 8800 card and software:

Watch videos on your desktop PC, notebook PC, or HDTV without the annoying artifacts and imperfections of traditional PC-based video solutions. NVIDIA PureVideo technology is the combination of a dedicated video processing core and software that delivers ultra-smooth, high-definition H.264, WMV, and MPEG-2 movies with minimal CPU utilization and low power consumption. And the high-precision subpixel processing enables videos to be scaled to any size, so that even small videos look like they were recorded in high-resolution.

I have seen similar software that would allow to upscale images from low res "to look almost hi res" - but this has always been far from the truth..

Is there anywhere you can see working examples on how these low resolution files looks almost high resolution? It sounds like a hoax in my opinion...

dirtydog · 2 Dec 2006 at 08:32

It has to be marketing BS because if the detail isn't there, no amount of fancy post-processing is going to bring it back. It's polishing a turd.

epoxy5 · 2 Dec 2006 at 08:50

dirtydog said:
It has to be marketing BS because if the detail isn't there, no amount of fancy post-processing is going to bring it back. It's polishing a turd.

Hehe my thought exactly.. would love to see some samples though...

edgaruy1980 · 3 Dec 2006 at 00:22

Don't believe nothing from Nvidia.
They say on their 7 series, HD fully supported,blah, blah, then later if you don't have a chip of 1 dollar (HDCP cryto rom) it wont work.
Also purevideo sucks, I have nvdvd 2.67 and uses only 30% of CPU, against 65% on the purevideo codec.When playing mpeg files, dvds.
I have a nvidia 7900GT and I will be switching to ATI, less lies, less marketing.