German website Notebook Journal has shot a video at a local Nvidia event showing an ION equipped netbook running GPU accelerated YouTube videos in HD. The ION chipset has so far lacked this ability, but the video shows several HD YouTube videos playing smoothly.

We’d like to warn readers that are sensitive to fast flickering video, as it seems like Nvidia was demoing the playback abilities of the ION chipset on a TV that caused some serious flickering in combination with the camcorder that was used to record the video below with.

There’s no mention in the video as to when these new Adobe video accelerating drivers will become available, but hopefully we won’t have to wait too long until HD video can be played back on ION powered netbooks (and nettops for those that own those). Hopefully Nvidia will also be able to port this onto its Tegra platform so we can see smoother video playback on Tegra powered devices which at the moment aren’t the best when it comes to Flash based content playback.

We’re not quite sure which netbook was used, but it looks like it might be an Acer model and it seems to be connected via HDMI to the TV used for the demo.