The Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator is a PCI Express card that you can throw into a number of netbooks or other devices to enable 1080p HD video playback on a computer that normally wouldn’t have enough processing power to handle high resolution video. While the original card wasn’t exactly enormous, it looks like Broadcom’s second generation Crystal HD video…

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Broadcom is rolling out an updated version of the company’s Crystal HD video accelerator for netbooks and notebooks. Like previous versions, the new Crystal HD chip is a media coprocessor that adds 1080P HD video playback capabilities to low power notebooks that wouldn’t otherwise be able to handle HD video playback. In fact, there’s not a lot of information in…

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