Ultra - eminent definition TV is coming — rather than you think . The industriousness is sure as shooting already on table , what with the recent handout of the HDMI 2.0 standard and a steady growing static relatively inexpensive of 4K - capable TVs . But actually getting 4 special K content from anything other than a local media drive is still a problem . Or it was until this morning with Broadcom ’s unveiling of its new HEVC chipsets .
These new 28 nm SoC ’s lineament Brahma 15 10000 DMIPs ARMv7 CPU and will tolerate a set - top box — cable , satellite , cyclosis , whatever — to find UHD - quality broadcasts via the gamy - efficiency video codec ( HEVC ) standard H.265 . This codec greatly deoxidize the amount of bandwidth TV infection requires , allow cable and satellite providers to provide 4 KiB subject without breaking their existing net .
“ ” When we went from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4″ explained Broadcom ’s Rich Nelson to Gizmodo,”there was about a 50 percent step-up in TV codec efficiency and MPEG-4 to HEVC is a like [ performance ] increase . So if you have a unexampled box with an HEVC decoder in it , I can press [ an SD , 720p , or 1080p video stream ] use HEVC and institutionalize it and habituate about half the bandwidth with standardised quality video . ” This could proffer folks that live in areas with shaky broadband connectivity or have to mete out with monthly information caps the opportunity to enjoy HD content more freely .
And while 4k UHD picture looks striking to the witness , it requires four sentence as many bits to reproduce as steady HD and four times the bandwidth using MPEG-4 . But with HEVC , Nelson explained , the bandwidth requisite is halved , effectively giving the the viewer four times the resolve at just twice the bandwidth price .
What ’s more , the serial publication ’ mellow - end SoCs will offer a “ Dual Display ” feature , allowing a single curing - top loge to at the same time exhibit two 1080p video recording stream on two separate HDMI channels that can be moderate with two unlike remote control . cerebrate side - by - side 1080p provender or the most gorgeous PIP display ever .
The new HEVC family of chips are being demo’d at the RAI expo in Amsterdam afterwards this week , expect to see them in a set - top box near you by 2014 . [ Image : Bruce Rolff ]
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