Broadcom, a provider of wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, unveiled a high definition decoder chip at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show that it says is the first to be fully compliant with both of the dueling Blu-ray and HD-DVD optical disc formats. The chip would enable manufacturers to design products able to decode compressed high-definition video, whether stored on Blu-ray or HD DVD-formatted discs.
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New Chip May Bridge Blu-ray, HD-DVD Divide
Posted by: Erika Morphy January 4, 2006 11:15 AMBroadcom, a provider of wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, unveiled a high definition decoder chip at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show that it says is the first to be fully compliant with both of the dueling Blu-ray and HD-DVD optical disc formats. The chip would enable manufacturers to design products able to decode compressed high-definition video, whether stored on Blu-ray or HD DVD-formatted discs.