“NVIDIA Personal Cinema has been gaining momentum as an ideal solution for consumers looking to turn their PCs into a home entertainment hub,” said Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA.  “We’re excited that the editors of Smart TV & Sound magazine have selected NVIDIA Personal Cinema as the best Personal Video Recorder (PVR) PC product of the year as it’s a true credit to the talents and expertise of our product design team.”

The editors of Smart & Sound TV said about NVIDIA Personal Cinema: “The NVIDIA Personal Cinema functions well as a DVD player, a TiVo-like video recorder, a solid home-video editor, and, with an exceptional 3D video engine, a fabulous gaming card.”

With its impeccably integrated hardware and software suite, NVIDIA Personal Cinema allows users to watch, record, and control live TV, enjoy superior DVD playback, and use their PCs to create personal home movies.  Personal Cinema’s Intelligent TV feature functions like a traditional set-top box by allowing users to “time-shift” live TV (pause, instant replay, forward and rewind) or automatically program the PC to record future shows or movies.  NVIDIA Personal Cinema is also the first product of its kind to implement a multi-function remote control—ensuring users of a simplified and intuitive interactive PC/video experience—and includes an exceptional NVIDIA GeForce-based Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in every package.

NVIDIA Personal Cinema is now available at specialty retail outlets nationwide from VisionTek and Compro Technology.  Pricing and availability information can be found at <http://www.nvidia.com/wheretobuy>.