VIDEO: Broadcom demos Crystal HD

High def on a netbook in action

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20 July 2009 16:12 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

We've brought you news of Broadcom's Crystal HD tech as part of a recent news story about BenQ's new nettops, and here is a Broadcom bod demoing it live on an HP netbook.

Crystal HD is a "family of Enhanced Video accelerators" which claim to enable "flawless" playback of 1080p high definition video on machines that would normally not be capable of such a thing.

Broadcom says: "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".

Hit play now for the comparison demo - as long as you can stand cheesy voiceover man's oh-so-obvious questions and comments.
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