Real, honest to goodness home theater quality video on your PC? Tell me that it’s possible! Well, it is. Thanks to Nvidia’s PureVideo technology, soon you will be able to sit at your PC and bask in the wonders that involve HD video.

The company has been talking about PureVideo for quite a while now, since the introduction of the GeForce 6800 back in April of this year, to be exact. However the enabling software was missing so far. Now, Nvidia has the driver package in place and promises to take video quality on the PC to the next level.

PureVideo is based on a programmable video processing engine integrated in GeForce 6-series graphics processors. According to Nvidia, the feature “eliminates the need for separate hardware or chipsets and takes the load off the PC’s multi-purpose CPU to deliver to consumers, high-quality video playback at resolutions up to 720p and 1080i”.

Key features of PureVideo include a dedicated 16-way vector processor that enables HD MPEG2 hardware acceleration while taking processing load off the CPU. The technology also is able to accelerate Microsoft’s WMV and HD WMV. PureVideo allows real-time video recording, spatial and temporal adaptive de-interlacing from satellite, cable and DVD feeds, 3:2 pull-down correction and “bad edit” correction, the latter however only for 6800 and 6600 models. Additional functions include “flicker-free” multi-stream scaling, and display Gamma correction.