MichaelTan Posted July 5, 2006 Posted July 5, 2006 Datasheet is here: http://www.adbglobal.com/products/documents/ADBx800WSeries.pdf Press release for x800 ADB set top boxes here: http://www.adbglobal.com/media/documents/20050901_ADBtoshowcaseworld-leadingsolutionsforDigitalTVatIBC.pdf Seems to have the ST 710X Omega family of chips: Brief: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~geobrown/publications/stb7109.pdf Presentation: http://www.st.com/stonline/products/promlit/pdf/brstb0505.pdf Seems to be able to decode H264 and VC1, though VC1 software part of the codec may not yet be ready - no news I can find on VC1 actually working. Can output DVI/HDMI data directly to HDMI transmitter, or go through video processor too. Has HDD interface for simple PVR function. Looks cool. Perhaps in the near future there will be hacks, but will require additional middleware to control, if the middleware not standardized across the X800 family. At least, the hard drive interface looks very very nice to use, if only to dump the decoded stream into it and play it back.
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