Company Leadtek, manufacturer of video and multimedia solutions, announced formation of that TV tuner WinFast series is now fully certified and compatible with the platform Microsoft Windows 7 Media Center. Tuners Leadtek quietly make the computer center of the living room - watch high quality TV program My TV in Windows 7 or in the new annex Leadtek WinFast PVR2.

WinFast PVR2 supports video acceleration DXVA 2.0, and transfers the task of video decoding from the CPU to the graphics core. With DXVA 2.0 CPU receives more resources for other tasks while watching HDTV-programs. The remote control completes the transformation Leadtek WinFast PVR2 PC with a full-featured media center.

To guarantee the highest quality to its customers, Leadtek is working closely with Microsoft for driver development software. Video cards and TV tuner Leadtek meet Microsoft standards and provide full compatibility with Windows 7. Simultaneously with the release of Windows 7 Microsoft provided API DirectCompute to improve performance PCs and graphics applications. DirectCompute - this is a new software application interface (API), which uses huge parallel processing capabilities of modern graphics processors and is working on the architecture of NVIDIA CUDA on Windows 7.

NVIDIA GPUs with DirectCompute can use parallel computing to shift the task of processing graphics with the CPU to the GPU. This not only frees CPU resources, but also significantly speeds up applications that work with graphics and digital media. Graphic Cards Leadtek WinFast based series of graphics processors NVIDIA GeForce 8, 9, and G200 fully supports DirectCompute, providing users with all its advantages.