Samsung Electronics has selected Broadcom Corporation’s third generation Blu-ray chipset system to power products in its 2009 lineup of Blu-ray Disc players and home theater systems.
Broadcom said its newest chipset system provides all of the processing functionality to enable playback of the Blu-ray optical disc format, enabling Samsung to introduce next-generation Blu-ray Disc players based on this technology as early as the first quarter of 2009.
Broadcom has announced the new BCM7601 Blu-ray decoder system, which builds upon its BCM7440 system-on-a-chip that has been deployed by Samsung in its 2008 Blu-ray Disc players, and the Broadcom BCM7620 optical front-end system.The BCM7620 single-chip optical front-end system is built upon Blu-ray disc drive technology and incorporates digital signal processing (DSP) techniques.
Dan Eiref, vice president and general manager of consumer electronics line of business at Broadcom, said: We are very pleased that Samsung has selected our newest Blu-ray chipset solution for its 2009 designs. This is an exciting growth phase in the Blu-ray market and we are pleased to partner with Samsung to introduce a new lineup of players and home theater systems for 2009 with such advanced features as BD Live and Netflix instant streaming.
