[opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test

The rest of the AVS Forum post says it will be Thomson product, it will receive 
"difficult" signals 85% of the time vs. current chips that supposedly only 
receive difficult signals 18-50% of the time and cost will be "the same as 
current chips." I'm quoting the poster, and have no idea whether this is 
accurate info from Linx.
 
I wonder if there will be a market for standalone demod/FEC chips in 2005? 
There are guys out there who already have DTV-on-a-chip today -- demod/FEC, 
MPEG2 video, NTSC video & audio, Dolby audio, graphics, microprocessor, etc. I 
don't know what they cost, but clearly the value of each IP block is dropping 
fast as the integration level increases. Remember when an MPEG2 video decoder 
was a chip of its own, and it was financially worthwhile for companies to make 
them? Now it's just another peripheral function in a much larger chip -- a 
requirement to do business on a higher level, but not particularly valuable in 
its own right.
 
I don't think we're there yet with 8-VSB, but I don't think we're very far away 
either...
 
-- Frank
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From: Eory Frank-p22212 
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:21 PM
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test




 [opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test 


*       From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> 

*       To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

*       Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:39:56 -0400 

According to this recent AVS post

( 

 
<http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=387667&highlight=casper>
 
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=387667&highlight=casper

 

) they will be sampling chips by 2nd qtr 2004 but no products until 

September 2005.



- Tom





Manfredi, Albert E wrote:


> Does anyone have any specifics on this item?
> 
> ----------------------------------
>  <http://www.linxelectronics.com/news/events.asp> 
> http://www.linxelectronics.com/news/events.asp
> 
> NAB 2004 58th Annual Broadcast Engineering Conference=20
> 
> When: April 17-22, 2004=20
> Held at: Las Vegas Convention Center
> Las Vegas, NV
> 
> Session: "State of the Art in Television 2004"=20
> Presentation: "Single Carrier Mobile DTV Transmission"=20
> Presenters: Richard Citta & Robert Rast=20
> When: Sunday, April 18 (Time TBA)=20
> Location: TBA=20
> -----------------------------------
> 
> Also, the Casper friendly ghost LX2004RX chip should be about ready to =
> be shipped in sample quantities? It's the second quarter of 2004.
> 
> Bert





 
 
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