The First Blu-ray Desktop and Notebook PCs Are Powered by Nvidia

Nvidia announced that the world's first PCs equipped with Blu-ray Disc drives feature the company's proprietary technology.


"Blu-ray Disc movies have incredible visual and audio fidelity, and we know consumers are eager to watch Blu-ray movies on their PCs. Nvidia's early and ongoing investment in HD video processing is enabling high definition playback on the PC. Sony's selection of Nvidia GPUs further demonstrates that Nvidia offers the premier solution for watching high definition movies on your PC," said Scott Vouri, General Manager of Multimedia at Nvidia.

The new Sony VAIO PCs are powered by Nvidia GeForce graphics processing units which include Nvidia PureVideo HD technology.

The VAIO RC desktop features the Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT graphics processing unit, 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 HD technology

- 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

- Nvidia PowerMizer 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.