[opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test


Eory Frank-p22212 wrote:
 > 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.

Interesting point.  But the incremental cost to add something to a 
chip is also determined by the IP licensing cost.  If that is 
significant then it is less likely a function will be integrated along 
with big collections of possibly useful stuff.  I'm not sure how that 
stacks up here.

- Tom




 > I don't think we're there yet with 8-VSB, but I don't think we're 
very far away either...
 >
> 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
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eory Frank-p22212 
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:21 PM
> To: Eory Frank-p22212
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test
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>  [opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test 
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> *     From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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> *     To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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> *     Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:39:56 -0400 
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> According to this recent AVS post
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> <http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=387667&highlight=casper>
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> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=387667&highlight=casper
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> ) they will be sampling chips by 2nd qtr 2004 but no products until 
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> September 2005.
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> - Tom
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> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
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>>Does anyone have any specifics on this item?
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>> <http://www.linxelectronics.com/news/events.asp> 
>> http://www.linxelectronics.com/news/events.asp
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>>NAB 2004 58th Annual Broadcast Engineering Conference=20
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>>When: April 17-22, 2004=20
>>Held at: Las Vegas Convention Center
>>Las Vegas, NV
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>>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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