One hacker has already added a Broadcom HD video accelerator to the Intel Atom powered Samsung NC10 which worked well. Another hacker has tried the same hack on a VIA C7-M powered netbook and come out with good results. Chris over at HP Mini Note PC has modded his HP Mini 2133 with a Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator card. With it installed he’s been able to play 720 and 1080p videos on his netbook including Blu-Ray video. The Blu-Ray videos needed to be paused for a few seconds first though so the video could buffer.

Unfortunately Chris hasn’t provided a guide on how you can mod your own Mini 2133 but, you can see how successful his project was in the videos after the jump.
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Soon,  our netbooks will have the capability to truly display videos in all their 1080p HD goodness. Thanks to Broadcom’s Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator Mini PCI-e card, not will only our netbooks enable HD video but view content heavy Flash content as well. This includes HD videos on YouTube, CBS, BBC iPlayer, Pandora.tv among others.

Even more exciting is the fact that with this HD solution netbooks will be able to do this even with 100% CPU usage, minus frame drops or stuttering.

As for the netbooks that will be carrying this HD solution, the HP Mini 110 XP Edition is the most likely candidate.

This Broadcom video shows how the HP Mini 110 carries HD video playback as against the Lenovo S10.

Via EeeUser Forum, Portable Monkey