Nero Supports NVIDIA(R) PureVideo(TM) HD Technology to Provide High-Definition Home Theater Experience for Your PC; Nero to Demonstrate Enhanced Nero 7 at Computex 2006 Show in Taiwan.TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announces today that it's recently updated Nero 7 software suite now supports NVIDIA(R) PureVideo(TM) HD technology for PCs. PureVideo HD enables cinematic-quality playback of HD DVD (High Definition DVD) A relatively short-lived high-capacity optical disc that holds four hours of high-definition video on a single-sided, single-layer 15GB disk. Sanctioned by the DVD Forum in 2003 and based on the Advanced Optical Disc (AOD) technology from Toshiba and and Blu-ray movies on PCs. The Nero ShowTime DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and multimedia player application of the Nero 7 software suite allows consumers to playback all digital recordings, including those in Blu-ray and HD DVD formats See HD DVD and high-def DVD formats. , with excellent picture and sound quality. Nero will demonstrate its Nero ShowTime application, enhanced with NVIDIA PureVideo NVIDIA's PureVideo is an MPEG-2 decoder designed to offload MPEG-2 decoding work from the CPU and software to NVIDIA's GPU series GeForce 6, GeForce 7, and enthusiast-class GeForce 8. PureVideo is designed to work with Microsoft's Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. , at Computex 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan (June 6 - 10) at Grand Hyatt Taipei Grand Hyatt Taipei, situated in the Xinyi district, Taipei, Taiwan, is located within the Taipei World Trade Center complex, adjacent to Taipei 101, and only a short walk to shopping malls and entertainment venues. - The Residence. "The PC industry is at the threshold At the Threshold, whose son Lil E. Tee won the 1992 Kentucky Derby for W. Cal Partee, died March 23 of a stroke at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in West Lafayette, Ind. The 21-year-old stallion stood at Wayne Houston's Stoney Creek Horse Farm near Mooreland, Ind. of a new era in entertainment with HD DVD and Blu-ray," said Scott Vouri, General Manager of Multimedia at NVIDIA. "NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology leads the way by enabling cinematic quality HD playback on the PC with either format. We're delighted to work with first-rate partners like Nero to deliver an excellent HD viewing experience on the PC." NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology provides hardware acceleration In computing, hardware acceleration is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal (general purpose) CPU. Examples of hardware acceleration include blitting acceleration functionality in graphics processing units (GPUs) and for decoding AVC/H.264 and MPEG-2 movies and performs advanced post processing techniques, such as spatial-temporal de-interlacing and inverse telecine See cadence correction. on the decoded high definition content. The PureVideo discrete video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. core offloads the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and 3D engine of complex video tasks, freeing the PC to run multiple applications simultaneously. "The PC is becoming central to today's home entertainment systems, and our partnership with NVIDIA allows us to offer consumers top quality high definition reproduction for video content they will view on a PC or stream to an entertainment system," said John Tafoya, Vice President of Business Development, Nero Inc. "We intend to stay in front of the curve of high definition video trends through our technological innovations and our partnerships with leaders in this space." The Nero 7 software suite also provides the Nero Home media manager that delivers the complete PC and TV experience with remote access to all audio, video and data content in the home. Other applications transform digital photos into professional animated slideshows, backup valuable data stored on a hard drive, manage and search media files, edit video and photos, create DVDs (including menus), stream files over a media server, and compress audio and video files to take on the go. A 30-day trial version of Nero 7 is available for download from the Nero Website. For more information, please visit http://www.nero.com/enu/NVidia.php. About Nero Nero (www.nero.com) develops and distributes the world's leading digital media solutions for consumers and professionals. Today more than 200 million users worldwide rely on Nero's award-winning and trusted, industry approved applications to manage the needs of the connected digital home and forward-thinking corporations. Nero's rapidly-growing portfolio of products defines new levels of innovation in the company's three key areas of focus: Digital Media Solutions - delivering multimedia applications for audio, video, photo and TV capturing, editing, burning, managing and sharing; Audio and Video Compression Encoding digital video to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. See video codec and data compression. video compression - Compression of sequences of images. Technologies - providing world-class interoperable standards-based solutions for encoding and decoding digital content with support for Next Generation HD and popular handheld formats; and VoIP Solutions - providing cost-effective voice, text and video communication over the Internet for home and business. Nero products are globally distributed by leading hardware manufacturers, international distribution partners and online portals, and can be purchased directly at www.nero.com. Nero provides worldwide coverage through Nero AG, based in Karlsbad, Germany and two subsidiaries: Nero Inc. in Glendale, California, USA and Nero K.K. in Yokohama, Japan. Nero(R), Nero Digital(TM) and Nero Sipps(TM) are trademarks of Nero AG and its subsidiaries. Any other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. (C) 2006 Nero. All rights reserved. |
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