For those owners of 1080p sets that accept native 1080p who are twiddling their thumbs until Bluray or HD-DVD arrives why not take advantage of a new feature that Nvidia has finally released for their high end graphics cards :
with driver 84.43
* Added SLI profile for Tomb Raider: Legend
* Adds support for GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7900 GT, and GeForce 7600 GT.
* New NVIDIA PureVideo features and enhancements. Please visit the NVIDIA PureVideo website for more information on PureVideo technology and system requirements.
o Support for high definition H.264 hardware decode acceleration on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
o Support for high definition MPEG-2 inverse telecine.
o Support for high definition MPEG-2 spatial temporal de-interlacing.
* Adds mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI.
* TV-Out/HD-out support for NVIDIA SLI.
* Added support for VSync on Direct3D games when running NVIDIA SLI.
* Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support
* For a full list of fixed and known issues please view the Release Notes.
For those lucky enough to save unencrypted 1080i HBO movies or even 1080i CBS shows with their HDTV tuner cards, this is what you need to reconstruct the natively progressive images of film based content. I am actually amazed that inverse telecine was done successfully with a driver update since I don't know of any 1080p television set that does proper inverse telecine of 1080i content.
