Broadcom VideoCore IV records 1080p video, takes 20MP photos

16 December, 2009
You hear a lot about camera modules on mobile phones, but not so much about the chip that does all the work of compressing the images and video. The new Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV can handle...

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  • Noname...
  • nYM
  • 16 Dec 2009

I'm a bit - just a tiny bit - skeptic about the battery times which are described here... 16Hrs HD video via HDMI? YEA RIGHT. Not even in 3 years from now, unless we'd be carrying around hydrogen fuel-cell batteries by then...

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    • Anonymous
    • veF
    • 16 Dec 2009

    dont really care about it now that nokia is coming up with 12mp in n87

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      • watchout
      • upc
      • 16 Dec 2009

      namez bond, 16 Dec 2009& how do you feel about yourself pointing out how they don'... more20mp is ofcourse ridiculus... Anything beyond 12mp is useless even from a dedicated still camera... but when a chipset claims 20mp it can be related to similar levels of image quality resulting from the good processing... with ofcourse a lot of good software... anyway, what im saying is, this is totaly different from samsung or sonyericsson saying '12MP NOW ON YOUR PHONE'

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        • Anonymous
        • PId
        • 16 Dec 2009

        lex luthor, 16 Dec 2009for those of you that write "first,second third" etc does i... moreAs against to Mr. Luthor himself

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          • FireDragon
          • sUv
          • 16 Dec 2009

          As a piece of technology, it sounds a powerful chip. Although I myself always go against the mp numbers and focus on the quality but the problem always is in business. Regular public melts hearing the massive numbers in mp camera and buy products without giving a thought about quality. Fine example is low-cost point and shoot cameras that has 8+ mp are in more sale than good brands only because of higher mps.

          Personally I would like to see use of this chip with up to 12mp pictures along side all other features it is offering.

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            • Anonymous
            • upc
            • 16 Dec 2009

            Anonymous, 16 Dec 2009no thank you. my canon works perfectly well.it does!... but you cant make calls with your cannon!! and you cant whip it out and surf the web...

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              • Anonymous
              • Uij
              • 16 Dec 2009

              wow all that from s single chip, looks promising and feels like its real HD and none of that glitching frames per second stuff.

              Samsung OmniaHD2, HTC HD3

              gonna be insane

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                • Anonymous
                • mrI
                • 16 Dec 2009

                8 mpixel would be enough for a camera but what mobiles really need is optical zooming and strong flash

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                  • watchout
                  • upc
                  • 16 Dec 2009

                  Anonymous, 16 Dec 2009great, now I´m gonna need 128GB internal memory for photos,... morethat my friend is the smallest of problems... storage stopped being an issue ever since flash developed into SSD.

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                    • BLINK
                    • t7I
                    • 16 Dec 2009

                    i hope they put this technology in the iphone..

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                      • Anonymous
                      • upc
                      • 16 Dec 2009

                      In three/four years time, mobile phones would make laptops, PMPs, cameras and GPS look outdated... we will be looking at devices that not only perform all the functions, but perform them well enough to make spending on anything separate pointless.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • v{M
                        • 16 Dec 2009

                        WOW, Thats great...

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                          • lex luthor
                          • n$e
                          • 16 Dec 2009

                          namez bond, 16 Dec 2009& how do you feel about yourself pointing out how they don'... morenamez bond you raised a valid point and i did miss the opportunity to comment on the actual news story as my keyboard stopped working, i agree with you, 20mp is ridculous.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • Ljr
                            • 16 Dec 2009

                            great, now I´m gonna need 128GB internal memory for photos, music, HD videos, maps and the hole package.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • uNV
                              • 16 Dec 2009

                              namez bond, 16 Dec 2009& how do you feel about yourself pointing out how they don'... moreYa u r r8. I also think people should concern about the quality of the camera lens, image processor, low light performance & colour accuracy etc etc. I saw that a 8mp camera of sony, canon or kodak can take picture much much better than a 12mp mobile camera like SE satio or samsung pixon. More pixel in camera mobile is like a Core i7 processor with only 1GB ram...lolz
                              No matter how big file a person upload in a Facebook album, it always converted into a 640x480 sized photo, which means 0.3mp

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                                • benny
                                • mc9
                                • 16 Dec 2009

                                i hope samsung omnia hd 2 will use this Broadcom VideoCore

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • P@c
                                  • 16 Dec 2009

                                  12mp clamors will now be 20mp protests. :(

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                                    • namez bond
                                    • 4xH
                                    • 16 Dec 2009

                                    lex luthor, 16 Dec 2009for those of you that write "first,second third" etc does i... more& how do you feel about yourself pointing out how they don't have a life? doesn't it put you in the same order? -_-
                                    anyways, i came here to "actually" comment on the forum not write 1st/2nd/3rd or complain about those who write them...
                                    20mp is ridiculous...people take pictures & upload on sites like facebook & all...but all those sites compresses the pictures anyways...it's not the size it's the quality of the picz that matters to me...i aint gonna make a big poster out of the pics so screw the Mps. lol

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                                      • lex luthor
                                      • n$e
                                      • 16 Dec 2009

                                      for those of you that write "first,second third" etc does it not remind as to how boring your life must be??



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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • PFx
                                        • 16 Dec 2009

                                        no thank you. my canon works perfectly well.