What does NVIDIA bring to the Media Center Edition experience?
The advantage that NVIDIA brings to the Media Center experience is in four key areas—better video, photos, games, and performance. NVIDIA works closely with Microsoft, PC manufacturers, and system builders to make a suite of NVIDIA products available—from GPUs to TV tuners to software technologies—that are designed to enhance the digital entertainment capabilities of Media Center PCs. It is because of this that NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6 Series and GeForce FX GPUs were among the first hardware technologies to receive “Designed for Media Center Edition” certification from Microsoft. The NVIDIA advantage is best experienced on Media Center PCs equipped with GeForce 6 Series GPUs with NVIDIA’s Video Processing Engine technology—a key driver of high-definition TV and video playback, which is a key new feature of the Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 operating system (OS). With GeForce 6 GPUs, consumers can experience unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and p