Samsung TV Introduces New Multistandard Decoder Chipset for Mobile TV
by Doug Lung, July 5, 2007
Samsung announced last week what it claims is the industry’s first 65 nm multistandard channel decoder and multiband RF tuner chipset for multiple mobile DTV standards. Standards supported include DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T and terrestrial DMB. The S5M8602 multiband RF tuner does not require an external low-noise amplifier and supports UHF, VHF and L-band frequencies. The S3C4F31 multistandard channel decoder supports Link Layer processing and is able to output fully error-corrected IP datagrams or MPEG-2 transport streams without the need for additional memory ICs. The RF tuner and channel decoder will be available as two standalone ICs, or as a combined system-in-chip package. Samples are available now and mass production is scheduled for Q4 2007. Samsung said the chipset would be released in Europe and Asia first and did not mention the proposed A-VSB standard for U.S. DTV broadcasting, of which it is developing in partnership with Rohde & Schwarz.
Doug Lung is vice president of engineering for the Telemundo Group of stations.

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Sharp in talks on dual-mode chip for TV-equipped phones
By Mariko Sanchanta in Tokyo 

Published: July 6 2007 03:00 | Last updated: July 6 2007 03:00

Sharp, Japan's leadingmobile handset maker, is in negotiations with up to 30 European companies, including mobile phone operators, to supply its dual-mode tuner chip for television-equipped mobile phones.

Demand for TV-equipped mobile phones is forecast to grow 10-fold in the next five years, and their usageis widespread in Japan, South Korea and parts of Europe. Until now, competing standards in different countries have made it impossible to receive digitalTV broadcasts on a single phone in more than one country.

However, Sharp's chip is capable of receiving terrestrial digital broadcasts in the US and Europe.

The mobile TV market is expected to reach 12m units in 2007 and 130m units by 2011 at a compounded annual growth rate of 67 per cent, according to Strategic Analytics, the market research firm.

In Japan and South Korea, demand for TV-equipped mobiles has rocketed. In Japan, where digital TV services became available on mobiles only last April, Sharp expects total domestic shipments of its TV mobile phones to reach 10m units this summer.

Analysts said that demand for digital TV mobile phones in western markets could be large, but competing standards in different countries had so far prevented digital TV from reaching abroad audience on phones.

Sharp and Samsung are locked in a contest to become the dominant supplier of multi-standardtuner chips for the burgeoning mobile TV market.

Samsung has launchedthe industry's first65-nanometer multi-standard channel decoder and multi-band radio frequencytuner that will supportmulti-digital mobile TV standards. Samsung's chip supports all four prevailing standards in use, while Sharp's chip supports two.

"Although a new market, we see high growth potential in mobile TV applications," said Yiwan Wong, a vice-president of Samsung's system LSI division.

The company is targeting initial product launches for the European and Asian markets.

Both Samsung and Sharp are shipping samples of their chips to companies.

Volume production at Samsung is slated for the fourth quarter of this year, while Sharp is capable of producing 300,000 dual-mode chips a month at its plant in Hiroshima.

The European Union is throwing its weight behind digital video broadcast handheld technology, which is likely to ultimately prevail in Europe and the US, though Japan, Korea and China each use different standards.

 
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Dale Kelly
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That had to one strong tower!

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Three on one side, backed against three.  I remember one that had a n-s and e-w pair of paths.

 

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