VIA's P710-HD module brings 1080p to EPIA-P710 Pico-ITXe board
By Darren Murph 
posted March 30th 2009 4:04PM
posted March 30th 2009 4:04PM
We've got to hand it to 'em -- VIA sure knows where the weak spot is in the netbook / nettop market, and it's doing an impressive job bringing 1080p to areas where it was once thought impossible. After trumpeting its Surfboard concept and VX855 chipset, the company is striking yet again from the Embedded Systems Conference with its P710-HD module. Said device, which works in conjunction with the EPIA-P710 Pico-ITXe board, brings full HD playback support to a mainboard that's almost small enough to fit in your oversized cargo pocket. The expansion module includes S3 Graphics' 4300E embedded GPU, 256MB of GDDR2 memory and support for dual DVI and HDMI outputs. Sadly, there's no mention of a price or release date, but we'd bet NVIDIA, Intel and the rest of the gang are definitely paying attention.[Via HotHardware]
ITXe? Whats this e all about?
its the stackable version of the pico-ITX ff
although it'd be nice to see this in on of those cases thats 5.25" bay mountable.
hint hitn nudge nudge via
Everythings better when its stackable.
These boards are annoying, what they need to take off is a battery pack, or some facility for this, what you mentioned, (Maybe even 3.5" mountable!?) and some realistic pricing!!!
Stick this in the 8 bit computer and we are in business
ION ION ION ION ION
Intel won't be perturbed. They're preparing the all-conquering GMA951 which will smoothly playback video up to 800 x 600.
No I think they would come up with a more crazy sounding name like GMAX951 GX+TURBOHDX4PWN
800x600 isn't anywhere near full HD, 1920x1200 is usually referred to as full HD. So what you said makes no sense really
@ pball_inuyaha
Sarcasm - Look it up.
Intel is the absolute last company you ever want handling anything remotely graphic intensive. I mean dead dirt last. The GMA chipsets are Garbage (thats with a capital G folks). The only way embedded graphics are going to succeed is in the hands of ATi / Nvidia - and now maybe VIA.
I can't wait 'til these 1080p capable, power sipping, fanless, tiny devices are mainstream and affordable.
S3 graphics? S3? There's a name I haven't seen in ages. Though, I am out of the loop on modern hardware.
Still no VIA / nVidia Ion I see...
Never heard of S3 Graphics before....are their cards any good?
No. They were a bargain chip company. They mostly made chipsets and such. They mainly made 4/8meg video cards back in the day as well.
VIA demostrated a nvidia 9400 with one of their chips and played crysis reasonably well..a while before ION was announced.
I would be All over these.
But just because it WORKS doesn't necessarily mean it works well.
That being said, i would REALLY like to see where this goes.
I could see Intel looking to buy out VIA, BEFORE Nvidia does....
But you didn't hear that from me.
Watch the stocks...
Full HD to consoles isnt 1920x1200, it's 1920x1080, Full HD to a computer( if your monitor can output it) is the max of a single gpu, 2500x1600 (inless u got multiple GPUs and Monitors).but since this is talking about video playbay...1920X1080 is the max for movies so far..for any playback device or monitor.if you want to keep the true res and aspect ratio of the original.
VIA's awesome, they are on the right track. I admit their prices are a little heavy, but the performance to watt usage to size is blowing everyone out of the water. I think next they need to sell a carputer kit, touchscreen PICO itx carputer with a 500gb 2.5 sata drive. Could turn on my car and have a 45,000+ itunes library in the dash!