Personal media players let consumers enjoy photos, movies,music,TV and other digital content everywhere they go. The Nexperia Personal Media Player Reference Design gives manufacturers everything they need to address the growing market opportunity for portable media players and recorders.
The Philips Nexperia Personal Media Player Reference Design combines high-quality digital audio and video processing, wired and wireless connectivity, and exceptional picture quality to give manufacturers a flexible platform for developing portable media player and recorder devices. The reference design leverages a single Nexperia PNX1500 media processor to decode and encode most popular and emerging audio and video formats including DivX, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3,AAC, and more. Glueless connections to a hard disk drive, portable Flash cards, and an LCD display lower the BOM even further and support a host of features and form factors.The reference design includes a transflective LCD display, ideal for low-light indoor and outdoor use. Its compact size and light weight enable highly portable, ergonomic player designs. Using the reference design, manufacturers can tailor storage, display, and media processing functionality to differentiate a variety of appealing player and recorder products enabling consumers to:
record high-quality audio, video, or TV
view/listen to hours of stored media anywhere
view photos or video from cameras or portable Flash devices
use the player as a wireless media adapter to enjoy PC and Internet media content in the living room
play stored music or full-resolution movies by connecting the player to a home theatre display or speakers
stream live TV or watch recorded TV or Internet content throughout the house
browse the web from the backyard or in WiFi hotspots
