Nvidia took advantage of CES to announce a new AI upscaling technology: Video Super Resolution. Expected in February, this new feature improves the quality of online videos on certain browsers.
The latest GeForce RTX are also good for playing online videos // Source: Nvidia
After RTX Voice technology, which filtered background noise for better voice exchanges during confinement, Nvidia now wants to improve the quality of web videos. At CES 2023, the firm announced Video Super Resolution, a new AI upscaling feature capable of boosting the image quality offered by online videos.
Compatible with the RTX 3000 “Ampère” and RTX 4000 “Ada Lovelace”, failing to work with the RTX 2000 “Turing” (Nvidia does not say why), this technology uses more or less the same technical bases as DLSS for “ upscale” Ultra HD 1080p videos. As TechSpot points out, however, only two browsers are immediately eligible: Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Better looking YouTube videos thanks to Nvidia
To illustrate its point and show the capabilities of its technology, Nvidia released a demonstration video. We see Apex Legends gameplay in native 1080p, then in 4K upscaled via Video Super Resolution. The result is rather convincing, with a more detailed scene and greatly improved sharpness, but the broadcast sequence is quite static: we do not know whether Nvidia’s technology is as effective on static or slow shots, as on very animated scenes or fast transitions between multiple shots.
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Anyway, Nvidia promises that this novelty will work, starting in February, on any 1080p video available online. The firm mentions YouTube, but a priori all other streaming video platforms are eligible. We now hope that Nvidia will also allow this feature to scale videos to 720p… and to exploit, why not, videos stored locally on a PC.
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