Sigma Designs makes the chips for decoding divx, mpeg-4,and wmv9 and soon H.264 standard.Sigmas chips feature a scaler for upscaling to hdtv and hdtv support.Sony is a sigma customer if want an idea of the high end quality these chips provide.
Pinnacle is comming out with a mpeg-4 tuner/dvd player stream to pc for pvr.Pinnacle(makers of dazzle) use Sigma's chips.Kiss uses Sigma BUT the Kiss players DO NOT Have DVI.DVI is an an output designed for hdtv bandwith.So I would guess the thing to look for in the high end unit is DVI and support of the high compression standards for streaming to and from the pc and upscaling to hdtv.Momitsu v880n should be out in a few weeks,they have DVI and sigm chips.
http://www.extremephono.com/momitsu_dvd_v880.htm
Sigma Designs said in thier Q1 conference call
Windows Media 9 Silicon is Shiping
this is the chip with an arm9 or 10 and instructions hardwired both for speed and longer battery life,they also support HDTV,and used in DVD players.I think the third person talking definately says the "windows media 9 now shiping in silicon" If you have patients to listen,
http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/2/40122.html
stock symbol sigm at yahoo finance.
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Sigma Designs makes the chips for decoding divx, mpeg-4 ,and wmv9 and soon H.264 standard.Sigmas chips feature a scaler for upscaling to hdtv and hdtv support.Sony is a sigma customer if want an idea of the high end quality these chips provide.
Pinnacle is comming out with a mpeg-4 tuner/dvd player stream to pc for pvr.Pinnacle(makers of dazzle) use Sigma's chips.Kiss uses Sigma BUT the Kiss players DO NOT Have DVI.DVI is an an output designed for hdtv bandwith.So I would guess the thing to look for in the high end unit is DVI and support of the high compression standards for streaming to and from the pc and upscaling to hdtv.Momitsu v880n should be out in a few weeks,they have DVI and sigm chips.
http://www.extremephono.com/momitsu_dvd_v880.htm
Sigma Designs said in thier Q1 conference call Windows Media 9 Silicon is Shiping this is the chip with an arm9 or 10 and instructions hardwired both for speed and longer battery life,they also support HDTV,and used in DVD players.I think the third person talking definately says the "windows media 9 now shiping in silicon" If you have patients to listen, http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/2/40122.html stock symbol sigm at yahoo finance.