Pocket Box", Marvell Launches Ultra-Bottom Digital Home Mini Media Center

At the 2009 North International Computer Show (Computex), Marvell demonstrated an ultra-small "media center" that uses its Sheeva processor to handle multimedia streaming and transmission tasks in digital home applications.

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In last year's Computex, Marvell also gave a preliminary demonstration of the application of the Sheeva processor in the storage field. At that time, the idea was to act as a subsystem to offload the main processor load in the host, and to handle all the media when the host is not powered on. Streaming to achieve energy efficiency.


However, this year Marvell showed off the physical mini-media center, these small boxes that can be picked up by hand, can be regarded as a complete computing device, and the retail price is as low as 79~99 US dollars.


The mini media center uses the Sheeva processor for video streaming. The USB interface can read data from any storage medium and then transfer it to a computer for playback, or send the media stream to the TV via DMA decoding.


The company said that in the past, to achieve digital media playback in the living room, the host may need a computer or server, but now, only a sophisticated media processing device can do the work, to provide digital homes A more energy efficient, efficient and low cost approach.

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