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Article: Broadcom Powers Toshiba's HD-DVD Players with a High-Performance HD Video Decoder Chip.
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- January 6, 2006
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Toshiba First to Announce HD-DVD Players
LAS VEGAS, 2006 International CES, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation , a global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, today announced that Toshiba's recently announced (HD-XA1 and HD-A1) HD-DVD players use Broadcom's high definition audio/video decoder chip. This high-speed multi-codec decoder chip enables Toshiba's box to decode and output compressed content from an HD-DVD formatted disc.
Toshiba is the first manufacturer to announce a DVD player based on the HD-DVD formatted disc standard, which offers significantly more storage capacity than today's DVD ...