Broadcom has announced its Complete Media PC solutions, a collection of hardware interfaces designed to allow lower specification desktop and notebook PCs to view high definition content without frying the system or experiencing playback issues.
Their new PC solutions are available in three add-in card formats—desktop PCI Express, PCI Express mini-card, or ExpressCard 34—as well as a chipset solution for PC motherboards.
They have been designed to integrate seamlessly with Windows Vista and XP, and can process and playback HD DVD, Blu-ray, and broadcast-quality high definition content, relieving pressure from the main CPU and graphics cards, and allowing less powerful PCs to take advantage of HD content.
Broadcom's media PC technology provides the highest quality video playback of multi-format (VC-1, H.264 and MPEG-2) HD content for the mainstream PC market. With total power consumption of approximately 2 watts, their media PC solutions help extend battery life on notebook PCs, enabling full-length movie playback.
"In comparison to other solutions in the market, our media PC technology excels when system cost, power consumption, CPU utilisation and fan noise are key factors," said Greg Young, Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom's High-Speed Controller line of business. "By leveraging our robust and proven HD video cores, as well as our outstanding collaborations with leading technology providers such as Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Corel and CyberLink, Broadcom is poised to establish significant market leadership in the media PC space by providing the highest quality, lowest power HD video playback solutions for mainstream PCs."
In simple terms, these solutions should cost-effectively open up the high definition experience to those with more modest PCs.
Broadcom's PC solutions are being demonstrated at Computex 2007 in Taiwan.
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