LAS VEGAS, USA: Broadcom Corp. is demonstrating a variety of new silicon, software and reference design platforms at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 7-10.

The Broadcom technical demonstrations will showcase the convergence of digital video, voice and data to deliver state-of-the-art multimedia experiences to consumers at home, at work and on the go, and will provide an exciting preview of the upcoming consumer products enabled by Broadcom's innovative technology.

Digital Video Technology:
Full high definition (HD) 1080p digital TV technology: Broadcom will demonstrate the latest advancements in the company's HD digital TV products and will also show solutions for capturing audio and video content and for reconciling disparate video and audio content in cable, satellite and IPTV set-top boxes (STBs), home media centers, portable media players, cell phones and a wide range of entertainment devices for the digital home.

Digital television home connectivity: Broadcom will demonstrate digital TV connectivity based on Broadcom solutions that offer consumers the ability to connect a wide variety of electronics devices -- all enabled by Broadcom technology -- to accomplish simple but meaningful tasks in a home environment.

High definition DVD technology: Broadcom will demonstrate the industry's most advanced complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution that combines both Blu-ray Disc(R) and HD DVD optical disc formats into a highly integrated, single-chip design. The Broadcom SoC has an advanced feature set, coupled with a Universal Optical Disc software stack and reference platform, that provides OEMs with a complete platform for future generation media players.

Client-server HD media streaming set-top box technology: Broadcom will demonstrate client-server reference platforms for DSL/IP networks supporting advanced functionality including the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) technology, secure video processor (SVP) and personal video recorder (PVR) "trick mode" capabilities over Ethernet and 802.11n wireless media.

Cable set-top box technology: Broadcom will demonstrate its family of cable STB silicon and software reference designs representing industry specifications that support OCAP, multi-stream CableCard, downloadable conditional access (DCAS), DOCSIS(R) set-top Gateway (DSG), DOCSIS 3.0 downstream channel bonding, and advanced HDTV MPEG-4 video and Dolby Digital Plus audio decoding capabilities in a client-server network.

Advanced satellite STB technology: Broadcom will demonstrate both satellite and hybrid STB reference platforms using advanced modulation technology, DVB-S2. These platforms perform both SD and HD MPEG-2 and AVC decode, and will demonstrate PVR and video-on-demand (VOD) capabilities with VCR "trick mode" effects on various video streams. In addition, the demonstration highlights Broadcom's advanced 2D and 3D graphics engines that enable Internet browsers and next-generation EPGs.

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