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Here’s some close up pictures of Broadcom’s Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator Mini PCI-e card that will come with future netbooks to enable HD Video, including HD flash playback.
You’ll be able to smoothly view content heavy Flash content (include HD Videos on YouTube, CBS, BBC iPlayer, Pandora.tv etc) and high definition HD video, including both 720p and 1080p (H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1). Even with 100% CPU usage, there will be no frame drops or stuttering.
The Crystal HD Mini PCI-e will first be making it into the HP Mini 110 XP edition. The Acer Aspire One 571 was also reported to have this module, along with a VMedia drive and HD screen, this nothing has been mentioned about this netbook in a official capacity.
This chip was also seen in an ASUS Eee PC 1000H demonstrating 1080P HD video over at the CyberLink headquarters.
Make sure your next netbook has this! 
Last edited by Jayayess1190 (2009-06-06 11:51:09 am)
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Last edited by Jayayess1190 (2009-07-07 10:31:19 pm)
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Cooool !
A 701 playing HD videos, thought id never see the day !
By the way, youre youtube link is dead ? :s
Last edited by gtisingh (2009-07-08 7:22:30 am)
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gtisingh wrote:
Cooool !
A 701 playing HD videos, thought id never see the day !
By the way, youre youtube link is dead ? :s
Sorry, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkhIZqOePps
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i'm rather surprised at that vid.
folks on the wind and aspire boards say that the cards did jack-didly-squat for HD performance.
some even had benchmarks of with and without the card that showed slight system lags with the card in.
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Perhaps the API and driver subset are poorly implemented in those setup's? I don't see how an add-on card can boost the graphics potential of an chipset IGP myself. The IGP is the bottleneck on currently available netbook's as far as video playback. Why can't they just release something with more power, and then work out the battery life solution....
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Turns out you need software designed to use the Card, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLkCSbRwPa0
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It runs 1080P HD like a charm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjqt5ZSSDE4
Like in the video, it doesn't work well on Windows 7 for some weird reason, but it works fine and dandy on Windows XP without any hanging.
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You can get the optimized Video Player and Drivers from HP's support site. . . at least until it becomes more wide spread. . .
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