Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang 2005 Pres Restored from Source Tape
19Today, Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang's success is off the charts: as of February 2024, Forbes puts his net worth is $60 billion, making him 24th richest person in the world, thanks to the explosive success of Nvidia. Back in 2005 though, the importance of realistic graphics was just starting to come into focus. In this keynote he did at Sony's E3 2005 press conference (the infamous PS3 reveal event) , Jensen showed what Nvidia's graphics tech could do -- at the time, a cutting-edge presentation full of all-new buzzwords; by today's standards, it's more of an elementary walkthrough... but still fascinating in retrospect. I recorded this in person, on-site at the event by plugging into direct feed -- easier said than done and I believe 1 of only 3 websites doing that back in those days besides IGN and GameSpot; the difference is I kept my source tapes all these years -- so here's my restoration from the original tape. In 2005, only a standard definition NTSC feed was available on-site, but in this video you get a full temporal resolution at 60FPS, which I think is important to preserve on material like this. It ain't perfect, but I believe it's the best version on YouTube... not to mention, in occurred to me that Jensen deserves his own standalone clip-out from this briefing -- he was one of its best speakers -- and of course, the rest is history.