Breaking News - TI's OMAP 3430 processor adds HD to phones
Ok, so we thought the iPod would let us store and
carry HD content from HDTV to HDTV. We were close based on Texas Instrument's newest OMAP3430 processor for
cellular phones. The new OMAP3430 samples are due out in mid-year, but not for use in devices until 2007 is the likely
story. The processor provides HD playback capability in a mobile phone; theoretically you could download some HD
content via a 3G data link and then connect your phone to a high-def monitor for playback. The OMAP3430 will support
MPEG-4, WMV-9, H.264 and RealVideo 10 when we see it next year. Sounds like we'll have a new poll question next year: Will your next phone be 720p or 1080i?
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kevin @ Feb 14th 2006 4:34PM
actually, it looks like their IVA2+ accelerator will encode/decode h.264 at a max res of 720x480. while the 2D/3D graphics accelerator supports output displays up to 1024x768 (not even 1280x720) which is good for GUIs, photo browsing, maybe games, etc...
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12643&path=templatedata/cm/product/data/omap_3430
http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/wtbu/ti_omap3430.pdf