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Tom Whitaker · 22-10-2007, 8:40 PM

I'm looking into this now and this thread still doesn't quite answer my question.

So, the latest Forceware and PowerDVD 7 Ultra combined are all I need for hardware-accelerated HD/BD content on my 8600GT?

And I'm not getting the PureVideo CODEC?

That's how I understand it from what's posted above. But why then would anyone buy the PureVideo codec? What's so special about it?

In my current setup, I can tick "Enable Hardware Acceleration" in PowerDVD while playing an HD-DVD.

22-10-2007, 8:40 PM	#10 (permalink)
Tom Whitaker Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 177 My movie collection Thanks: Gave 12, Got 5	Re: Confusion between Nvidia Purevideo and Purevideo HD I'm looking into this now and this thread still doesn't quite answer my question. So, the latest Forceware and PowerDVD 7 Ultra combined are all I need for hardware-accelerated HD/BD content on my 8600GT? And I'm not getting the PureVideo CODEC? That's how I understand it from what's posted above. But why then would anyone buy the PureVideo codec? What's so special about it? In my current setup, I can tick "Enable Hardware Acceleration" in PowerDVD while playing an HD-DVD.