Broadcom Crystal HD Video Accelerator Alternative Hits the Streets

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19 Jul, 2010 11:34 am

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Looking to upgrade your netbook with an HD video acclerator? Anyone who was looking to grab the Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator knows that the price of the cards went through the roof when Boradcom introduced its 2nd generation card and supplies dwindled.

We now have another option then The Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator, Habey selling its HB-VD904 for $49.99 through
Amazon and Newegg. Based of the Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator it can decode AVC, VC-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and H.264 high definition video.

The HB-VD904 is a PCIe mini card which can fit in many existing netbooks and other devices. If opening up your netbook isn’t a problem many are built for modding and you’ll be watching HD video in no time.

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  • Gozer

    You could always buy them from Logicsupply which is the recommended place to get them from in the XBMC forums http://www.logicsupply.com/products/bcm970012

    There were also fakes floating around on eBay with incorrect DRAM size on the cards which means that newer firmware/drivers would cause problems.

    [quote] Originally Posted by davilla
    As a test for those having problems with new driver/lib and old layout cards, try the old firmware instead of the new firmware.

    The old layout cards from ebay were always suspect as they seem to have been obtained from the Broadcom factory in China without Broadcom's knowledge. In discussions with Broadcom, we suspect that some of these cards have marginal DRAM and the new firmware has a different memory footprint that the older firmware.

    I have a few old layout cards working their way to me so I can try and see what is going on and if there is something we can do in the driver to help.

    The issue is the firmware is loading but not running and the command that tests that it's running is timing out.[/quote]

    http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=569855&pos…

  • Gozer

    You could always buy them from Logicsupply which is the recommended place to get them from in the XBMC forums http://www.logicsupply.com/products/bcm970012

    There were also fakes floating around on eBay with incorrect DRAM size on the cards which means that newer firmware/drivers would cause problems.

    [quote] Originally Posted by davilla
    As a test for those having problems with new driver/lib and old layout cards, try the old firmware instead of the new firmware.

    The old layout cards from ebay were always suspect as they seem to have been obtained from the Broadcom factory in China without Broadcom's knowledge. In discussions with Broadcom, we suspect that some of these cards have marginal DRAM and the new firmware has a different memory footprint that the older firmware.

    I have a few old layout cards working their way to me so I can try and see what is going on and if there is something we can do in the driver to help.

    The issue is the firmware is loading but not running and the command that tests that it's running is timing out.[/quote]

    http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=569855&pos…