The new Roku HD-XR digital video players will be equipped with Broadcom’s Intensi-fi XLR single-chip which will back up the HD video content rendering through improved wireless means. This should be a great bonus for home theater setups which are going wireless in sharing HD video content without sacrificing quality. The enhanced wireless capability enables ...

Broadcom Corporation has officially become the first silicon provider to ship a true single die Blu-ray Disc chip with the Broadcom BCM7630. This new chip combines optical front-end and back-end video decoding and display technologies in a single die solution. At the same time, it also supports leading-edge Internet streaming applications such as Netflix 2.0, ...

Chumby has announced it has reached an agreement with Broadcom and it will integrate its rich media Internet platform onto system-on-a-chip solutions which will be neatly placed in future HDTVS, Blu-ray players and set-top-boxes. That means Chumby will deliver some of its widgets to you right on top of that show you're watching. And Chumby ...