Panasonic Blu-ray Player LSI

Panasonic steals the headlines yet again with a new Blu-ray Disc player-specific single-chip signal processing LSI, a first in the world. Dubbed the MN2WS006, this chip brings together a front end to read the signal from the Blu-ray disc, and a back end that convert this into AV data. Multi-standard video decoding technology is utilized to enable video playback for BD, DVD, and CD media, and standards including MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and VC-1; audio playback compatible with lossless coding; and dual-screen simultaneous video playback including HD video, and a high-speed graphics engine technology which enables 2D graphic processing, and also 3D graphic processing or curved surface drawing on Panasonic’s MN2WS006.