[opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test
- From: Eory Frank-p22212 <Frank.Eory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:53:39 -0700
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
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[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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