| NVIDIA Powers First Blu-ray Desktop and Notebook PCs |
| Written by News Editor | |
| Monday, 22 May 2006 | |
      NVIDIA announced that the first PCs equipped with
Blu- ray Disc drives feature NVIDIA technology. The new Sony VAIO PCs
are powered by NVIDIA GeForce graphics processing units which include
NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology.
Blu-ray is a new high definition (HD) video disc standard that offers up to six times the visual detail of traditional DVDs. Blu-ray discs can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs offers consumers an amazing HD experience. Sony's VAIO RC desktop and AR notebook are the world's first PCs that will let consumers play Blu-ray discs on their computers. The VAIO RC desktop features the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT graphics processing unit (GPU), while the VAIO AR notebook uses an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600-series GPU. The GeForce 7 series of GPUs features advanced technologies including: * H.264 and MPEG2 hardware accelerated support through NVIDIA PureVideo(TM) HD technology -- the combination of HD video processors and software delivers a HD home-theater quality video experience to the PC. * Support for the latest games and applications with DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 delivering more realism to real-time gaming. * A high-performance 3D architecture built for Microsoft Windows Vista -- the industry's first operating system to require a GPU to realize its full potential. * NVIDIA PowerMizer(R) technology for reduced power consumption and less heat generation result in cooler and smaller notebooks with increased battery life (only on GeForce Go notebook GPUs). NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology provides hardware acceleration for decoding H.264 and MPEG-2 movies. The PureVideo discrete video processing core offloads the CPU and 3D engine of complex video tasks, freeing the PC to run multiple applications simultaneously, while consuming less power. Enabling consumers to play HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc movies on a PC, NVIDIA PureVideo HD consists of select NVIDIA GPUs (certain NVIDIA GeForce 6-series GPUs, all NVIDIA GeForce 7-series GPUs, and nForce 6150 motherboards), PureVideo HD software, and content security management. These components are designed to meet the HDCP specification and offer HDMI/DVI compliance. (Other products, such as monitors and display devices may need to be also designed to meet the HDCP specification to view content at full HD resolution.) In addition, because application compatibility and compliance are critical, NVIDIA has partnered with movie player software companies, drive manufacturers, content providers and OEMs to deliver a complete solution. About NVIDIA For more information, visit www.nvidia.com |
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