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Broadcom Announces First Fully Compliant High-Definition Decoder Chip for Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Media Players

Posted by Sachin Garg on 3rd January 2006 | Permanent Link

Press Release: Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM - News), a global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, today announced the industry’s first high definition (HD) audio/video decoder chip that is fully compliant with the emerging Blu-ray and HD DVD optical disc formats. Compliance with Blu-ray and HD DVD formats permits the recording and playback of high definition video on blue laser-based optical disc media and drives. Broadcom’s latest high definition decoder chip enables a new generation of consumer electronics devices that can decode compressed HD video stored on Blu-ray or HD DVD formatted discs.

Announced today is the Broadcom® BCM7411D HD A/V decoder chip. The new chip supports H.264 (also known at MPEG-4 Part 10/Advanced Video Coding (AVC)) and VC-1 (SMPTE 421M), the SMPTE standard based on Microsoft® Windows Media® Video 9. Both compression standards are mandatory for Blu-ray and HD DVD optical disc formats. The BCM7411D also supports high definition MPEG-2 decoding and provides full backwards compatibility for current DVD video titles as well as new HD DVD titles that may be authored in an MPEG-2 format. A single-chip high definition decoder, supporting all three compression standards, enables manufacturers to build a new generation of media players that support both high definition optical discs as well as existing DVD video titles.

Also announced today is Broadcom’s BCM97438 reference platform for the development of Blu-ray and HD DVD media players. The platform includes a reference board featuring the new BCM7411D HD A/V decoder chip and Broadcom’s BCM7038 dual-channel HD digital video system chip, as well as a software platform that offers OEMs a wide range of integration options. Customers can interface their own navigation software solutions with application program interfaces (APIs) that provide full access to the underlying graphics, security, storage and I/O functions. Broadcom is also working with third party software vendors to offer fully integrated navigation software solutions for OEMs who want to license a complete software stack. For example, Sonic Solutions has announced availability of its AuthorScript® BD Navigator solution for playback of advanced interactive Blu-ray discs on the BCM97438 platform.

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