Beyond all that, this thing gets energized by a 1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV processor coupled with the VX800 digital media IGP chipset, which touts full DirectX 9 support and video acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, VC1 and DivX video formats (plus a VMR-capable HD video processor, among other things).

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The company has designed a relatively cheap chip that is powerful enough to decode digital video (MPEG-2) on the fly and is also programmable.

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The player will support several digital video formats, including MPEG 2, which is the current standard for digital video used on DVD discs and in hard-drive TV recorders like ReplayTV and TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ).

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