AI upscaling techniques like Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR are all the rage lately, allowing you to play your favorite games at higher frame rates without downgrading image quality. It's a huge win for us gamers, because we no longer have to shell out more money and buy a new GPU for a performance boost. Now imagine the same thing, but for streaming video content on popular streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and more. Thanks to Nvidia's RTX VSR technology, the same Tensor Cores that power Nvidia DLSS in games can now work their magic on videos you stream online.

If you're another binge-watcher and own an Nvidia RTX graphics card, you can have lower-resolution web videos upscaled to 4K through Nvidia's RTX Video Super Resolution technology. Cute, right? In this post, we will explain how to enable and use Nvidia RTX VSR on your Windows PC.

The movies and TV shows on streaming platforms are susceptible to compression artifacts (graphical errors caused by heavy video compression). Have you ever played an old movie on your high definition screen and noticed jagged edges and a loss of sharpness around the corners? They make the viewing experience slightly less sweet. This is where Nvidia RTX Video Super Resolution comes in, helping to upscale low-resolution video playback in browsers without much quality loss. Let's learn how it works:

In an official blog post, Nvidia reveals that Video Super Resolution "improves the quality of streamed video content beyond edge detection and sharpening." This feature uses a Deep Learning Network, which analyzes the lower resolution video and predicts how it should look at the target resolution. It then overlays the predicted image on top of a traditionally upscaled image to eliminate any artifacts. In addition, it also sharpens the image along the way, giving you a better picture.