[opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:24:43 -0400
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...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
>>-----------------------------------
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>>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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