The NVIDIA DVD decoder is the first software decoder to receive the ???¢?¢a€????…a€?Designed for Media Center Edition???¢?¢a€???? certification, ensuring that it will deliver premium video quality and unmatched performance for Media Center PCs. In addition, the NVIDIA DVD Decoder is designed to work with Portable Media Centers allowing users to take their recorded TV shows with them on the road. The Inquirer thought Purevideo was going to be new drivers, but it is included only with NVDVD as you can see, the new release includes the following:
- Enables PureVideo???¢?¢a???????¢ technology on GeForce 6 series GPUs
- Added support for Windows Media Center 2005 control panel extensions for the DVD Decoder
– Minimizes CPU utilization by offloading the MPEG-2 decoding onto the graphics processor
– Enables advanced de-interlacing
– Decodes high-definition MPEG-2 streams for ATSC tuners
– Supports Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers allowing end users to transcode MPEG-2 content into Windows Media Video 9
– S/PDIF pass through for external decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS (compatible hardware required)
The filters are newer than the version that were released with the new Theatertek player, which is a HTPC front end application similar to Zoom Player if not quite so rich in the feature department.