Comments on: Confirmed: Adobe Flash 10.1 plays well with Broadcom’s HD video accelerator

By: wedding dresses

wedding dresses — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:28:00 +0000

Just bought the card on eBay after reading this article and it should be here soon.

By: Rod Regier

Rod Regier — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:23:12 +0000

Gee, &fmt=37 seem to disable the HD option in YouTube. Seems counterproductive.

By: Rod Regier

Rod Regier — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:23:12 +0000

Gee, &fmt=37 seem to disable the HD option in YouTube. Seems counterproductive.

By: J

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:18:53 +0000

Card went in quite easily. The driver works flawlessly but the software from Adobe, the 10.1 beta, is the buggiest darn thing ever. I can't wait for the final release from Adobe, but I can confirm that the card does work with my HP mini 1000.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:34:14 +0000

Does anyone know what Atom powered netbooks have an extra PCIe slot? I'm thinking that for the cost of this card + a closeout older model you could make out $100 better than the new ION machines and still get the HD playback.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:56:11 +0000

I pulled the wifi card out of my NC10 (still running Win7 RC1) and replaced it with a Crystal HD card. Then I installed the Flash Player 10.1 beta and toyed around with it. I will say it's a dramatic improvement. HD content that used to display as a slideshow is now playing at a pretty decent clip in YouTube. I was even able to watch 1080p videos at something like a decent frame rate. The bottleneck with HD content on netbooks now appears to be the network and disk overhead. The IE UI surrounding the video was really sluggish/non-responsive while the video played more or less flawlessly.

There are a few different drivers out there for the Crystal HD. I had originally been using one dating back to January, but updated to the latest one on the HP site, and it was noticeably faster. I may get better results if I update to the final Win7 release, but for now, I can say people will be a lot happier with Flash-based video if they're using this or the ION chipset. (Disclaimer: I work for Adobe, but I don't work on Flash Player directly.)

By: J

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:52:01 +0000

Just bought the card on eBay after reading this article and it should be here soon. Wanted to beat the rush, but there are plenty more you can buy from China with free shipping for 25 bucks. JKKmobile has a good video of him plugging in 3G modems to an open pci-e slot. Hopefully it works with this card too!

Will post how it works in my HP Mini 1000 when I get it. I'm running a dual boot with Win7 RC/Ubuntu UNR 9.10