Royal Philips Electronics has unveiled its Nexperia Personal Media Player reference design based on Philips' Nexperia PNX1500 media processor. The Nexperia Personal Media Player is an ideal reference design for Asia's mobile device manufacturers, offering high-resolution video recording and playback as well as connectivity to PCs and home entertainment systems.
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layer reference design offers compatibility with a variety of leading audio and video standards, including MP3, AAC, Dolby Digital, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and DivX. The PNX1500-based Personal Media Player can also encode full-resolution video into numerous formats, such as DivX and MPEG-4 for recording onto its internal hard disk drive or flash memory cards.
The reference design features wireless connectivity using Philips' high-performance IEEE 802.11a/b/g chipset. Lastly, for the very highest video quality on LCD screens, the Personal Media Player leverages the PNX1500's advanced LCD controller, motion-adaptive de-interlacing and high-definition video up-scaling.
"Philips Nexperia Personal Media Player reference design, with its unique combination of media processing, network connectivity and display enhancement, is offering Asian CE manufacturers a high-quality and reliable platform for next-generation personal media devices," said Chris Day, senior marketing director, media processing, Philips Semiconductors. "Ultimately, consumers will be able to listen to thousands of hours of music, watch hours of movies and store hundreds of digital photo albums - all on the go."
Personal media devices created by Asian manufacturers based on the Philips reference design will enable consumers to connect, wired or wirelessly, to their P