Broadcom Crystal HD Solution

Broadcom's Netbook and Nettop Multimedia solutions include the Crystal HD family of Enhanced Video accelerators which enable flawless playback of 1080p High Definition (HD) video across the widest range of systems in the industry. By lowering CPU utilization, power consumption, and integrating seamlessly into Microsoft Windows 7, Windows® XP and Linux environments, Broadcom's solutions enable high definition content playback without changing the form factor, battery life and cost of the platform.

Integration into popular media player software including Adobe Flash Player allows the delivery of a wide range of content to the netbook and nettop systems providing consumers with a rich user experience.

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• Broadcom
• BRCM
• netbook
• notebook
• nettop
• Adobe
• multimedia
• HP
• Acer
• HD

[toontent]

now what would be really cool is putting one of these inside a smartphone

[eyeland420]

sorry to go offtopic, but whats up with the minimal cpu-meter as seen around 2:05? I don't remember task-manager doing this in XP, but then again, I DO tend to forget remembering...

[supercooled]

@Mihkellt Like I said to the other guy, it allows for quick and painless mobility and with my phone, I can do DLNA to a big screen and enjoy it in 1080p rather than scrunched down 480p upscaled garbled messed.  This is more for legacy support more than it is anything else.

[supercooled]

@ownedbymeeee That's not really the entire picture, pardon the pun. It eliminates redundancy with encoding different formats for different devices that people no doubt have in the arsenal nowadays. I recently bought my first smart phone (Galaxy SIIX aka Hercules) and it can play 1080p natively, keyword is natively. I can throw a MKV file off my computer and off I go. Same for netbooks/aging laptops, etc. My other device is a 1st generation AppleTV so this Broadcom chip is a godsend.

[Mihkellt]

Remember this.If you have a notebook that has a screen with like 1024x600 (Hp mini 210) mpx than you can not play HD.If you download a movie that is 1080p than it will still be converted to 1024x600 mpx which is NOT HD.

You can watch video in 480p and still have an good quality since the screen is so small...

[cronus75]

My Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 has 1366x768 screen and Crystal HD decoder. At 720P coded HD film with AC3 sound is smooth as silk at most 40% cpu load. Cpu is Atom N450 at 1.66Ghz...With disabling the decoder, it's completely unwatchable as the video above. Chrystal does what it says.

[ownedbymeeee]

why would anybody even play 1080p on a screen which is like 1024x768 (or something like that. Its stupid, unless you hook up a Full HD beamer

[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa78815]

@mjbell86 my understanging is that mkv is just a container for several formats. your video is prob encoded in an incompatable format. im thinking about getting on but i want to know what it does not work with

[lexpee]

I built these card in my Dell Inspiron 6400, instead of the wifi card.

Wow what a difference. without bumps watch a full HD movie.

The price here in Holland € 43, - including VAT and delivery. recommend it to anyone who wants give the computer a injection.

[mjbell86]

I am having problems with the Broadcom Crystal HD Decoder Mini Card BCM70010/BCM70012 on the HP Mini 210-1009SA. The 1080p play back is really laggy, I am playing via Media Player Classic with a MKV file. Any ideas why it lags so much?