Purevideo HD on GeForce 8500/8600 series offloads CPU

[Mr. Smith]

GeForce 8600 and 8500 series GPUs features a revolutionary new video processing engine. A new video processor (VP) block provides more advanced video post processing to improve overall video quality. A new integrated bitstream processor (BSP) allows the 8500 and 8600 GPUs to perform full HD decode. They are the world’s first video processors to offload from the CPU 100% of Blu-ray and HD DVD H.264 video decoding...

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[Ham]

While its probably a fantastic step in technology. All that says to me is more heat.