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Google TV Switches from Intel to Marvell Processors

The new chip supports 3D video, 3D graphics, enhancement tools, and more.

"Marvell and Google have teamed up to change home entertainment forever," says Marvell co-founder Weili Dai. ""I believe this is a major breakthrough movement and it's just the beginning of our bigger vision."

At the very least, this is going to change the future of the Google TV platform, giving a much needed power boost to the hardware. The Marvell Armada 1500 HD chip offers quite a bit of capabilities, not the least of which is Marvell Qdeo video processing technology.

The company boasts fasting processing and lower power consumption than Intel's chips. Mario Queiroz, product manager at Google TV, makes a point to mention that the newest Google TV products will be brought to market at "attractive prices." We'll have to wait to see what this all means, but it sounds like we'll be getting a much more capable Google TV in the near future.

Source: Marvell

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Marvell Introduces Video Evaluation Blu-ray Disc

New benchmarking tool released for testing processing capabilities.

Video quality can be a difficult for people to grasp, especially nuanced improvements that might not be immediately noticeable. Marvell offers a solution, a new High Definition test disc. Enabling much simpler sampling of various indicators of video quality, the disc provides a series of tests to determine a system’s capabilities.

The Qdeo Blu-ray disc was designed to look at a few specific things, such as noise reduction, format conversion which covers de-interlacing, and image enhancement, which includes color remapping , contrast enhancement and bit-resolution-expansion. Different test patterns are enabled to test each of these. Also included is a test pattern to calibrate video settings for your system as well as demonstrations and HD video montages.

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