What's the power consumption of the Broadcom chip? The Z-series Atom chip with the GMA 500 (PowerVR) has H.264 acceleration already. I've played 1080p videos @ 20 Mbps smoothly with this setup. The US15W plus Z5XX Atom has a TDP of less than 5 W. It's nice not needing to transcode my videos when I want to watch them on the go.
"The Broadcom BCM70015 chip will improve video performance and supports AVC, H.264, VC-1, WMV9 and MPEG2 standards along with a number of operating systems (Windows XP, Windows 7 and Linux). The chip is very power efficient and consumes 30mW at idle. This increases to 500mW when watching 720p HD videos and 1W when watching 1080p content."
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What's the power consumption of the Broadcom chip? The Z-series Atom chip with the GMA 500 (PowerVR) has H.264 acceleration already. I've played 1080p videos @ 20 Mbps smoothly with this setup. The US15W plus Z5XX Atom has a TDP of less than 5 W. It's nice not needing to transcode my videos when I want to watch them on the go.
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From an article on BCM70015 power consumption:
"The Broadcom BCM70015 chip will improve video performance and supports AVC, H.264, VC-1, WMV9 and MPEG2 standards along with a number of operating systems (Windows XP, Windows 7 and Linux). The chip is very power efficient and consumes 30mW at idle. This increases to 500mW when watching 720p HD videos and 1W when watching 1080p content."
Pretty efficient!