NEC launching BD-Live compatible SoC for Blu-ray players

by Richard Lawler, posted Jul 12th 2008 at 5:39PM

NEC seems to be over that whole HD DVD thing, announcing it's begun mass production of its EMMA3P SoC for Blu-ray players. Squeezing USB and Ethernet control components for BD-Live compatibility, h.264 / VC-1 / MPEG-2 compression, Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD and of course DivX onto just one chip should make for more cheap (& fully featured) Blu-ray players on the way soon. Narrowly trailing the announcement of Panasonic's UniPhier single-processor solution it certainly hasn't come a moment too soon.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Blu-ray

Tags: bd live, bd-live, BdLive, blu-ray, divx, emma, emma3p, nec, processor, soc

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