Comments on: Broadcom’s PCI-E Crystal HD Media Accelerator in pictures

By: Scandinavian cutie

Scandinavian cutie — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:49:14 +0000

For an ASUS Eee PC 1005HA-B is it of any worth,

1. Does the 1005HA-B have a that slot PCI-E slot
2. where to buy it.
3. is it more practical and economical to buy a netbook with ION onboard.

By: FastFinger

FastFinger — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:00:36 +0000

Can I just slap this into my Lenovo S10’s express card slot and get the high quality video to my external monitor?!!

By: Jet Sun

Jet Sun — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:59:17 +0000

Thanks Sarreq, we’ve changed the text, as it was a little ambiguous.

I have seen previous versions of these Mini PCI-E cards sold in eBay under the Broadcom brand, but not sure whether OEMs will be doing their own versions too.

By: Sarreq Teryx

Sarreq Teryx — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:00 +0000

another thing, will this actually be released under Broadcom’s branding, or by OEMs under different names?

By: Sarreq Teryx

Sarreq Teryx — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:29:29 +0000

that’s my point, if it’s only in production, and not actually >AVAILABLE NOW<, don't write that, it will only serve to confuse people. if they actually ARE available now, linkage would be very nice.

By: Tej

Tej — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:38:31 +0000

The press release says they are in full production, maybe they are yet to hit retail as I haven’t come across the Crystal HD solution on any site so far.

By: Sarreq Teryx

Sarreq Teryx — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:41:36 +0000

“These add-ons are available now.”

where exactly? I’d love one of these in my inspiron mini10.

By: Fanfoot

Fanfoot — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:54:13 +0000

Remember that once Pineview hits, this is old news. MPEG-2 and h.264 (AVC) video decode acceleration is implemented in the GPU embedded in the N450. So this sort of external video accelerator will be unnecessary. And Pineview may be available as early as October.

Personally I think that if you’ve waited till now, given that Windows 7 is coming out in October, you might as well wait a little longer.

Also, remember that NONE of these does anything to fix the big buggaboo of netbooks, e.g. full screen HD flash playback without stuttering (Hulu or Youtube in HD say). Until Adobe does some kind of GPU offload, even for the video scaling part, none of these will help make that work any better on netbooks than it does today.

By: Tej

Tej — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:50:02 +0000

The press release talks of these cards being in full production right now. As they only announced it last week, it will probably take some timt to hit retail channels.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:29:08 +0000

Where are these available now?

I’ve fallen in love with the HP 2140 and the only thing holding me back is the lack of video acceleration and Windows 7. If I could pop in one of these in (I think its PCI-e slot might be used for wi-fi but it’s got an expresscard slot), I might go ahead with the purchase. I’ve been looking everywhere for information on this, but can find very little. Otherwise, I’ll likely hold off for something a little more certain.