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The Digital Media business unit of Trident Microsystems
has announced the launch of its second-generation TV encoder,
TVXPRESS TM II (TVX2).
California based Trident claims to be a world-wide leader
in developing cutting-edge digital video processing technology
for the consumer digital video marketplace. An official
release says that the new product takes advantage of Trident's
Digital Media expertise in digital video technology. TVX2
is a versatile NTSC/PAL TV encoder chip equipped with an
advanced, programmable multi-tap TV de-flicker and UV chroma
filter. TVX2 provides sharp text, superb graphics, and vivid
video quality. A the same time, dot crawl and colour bleeding
are reduced considerably, the release says.
TVX2
enables Entertainment PC applications such as 3D gaming,
web TV, video conferencing to be displayed on television.
TVX2 is also an optimal NTSC/PAL TV video companion solution
for all Trident graphic accelerator chipsets. These include
the new low-power integrated graphics and core logic chipset,
CyberALADDiN-P4 and the low-power 3D graphic solution, CyberBLADE
XP2.
In addition, TVX2 claims to be a key component for set top
box or DVD players, where digital RGB and YUV are converted
to TV signals. Trident's TVX2 is an integrated TV-Out filter/Digital
TV encoder companion chip for Trident's graphic controllers
as well as other third party graphic controllers that are
equipped with the CCIR/RGB-style digital video interface.
TVX2
supports inputs with YUV422 (CCIR 656) format, RGB24/16
format, and a wide range of input resolutions in addition
to the standard VESA resolutions. TVX2 supports NTSC-M,
NTSC-4.43, NTSC-EIA (Japan), and PAL-B, D, G, H, I, N, M
standards. With the help of three independent DACs, TVX2
supports S-video and Composite-video outputs simultaneously
(S-video + CVBS), or supports SCART (RGB + C-SYNC) outputs.
TVX2
claims to be compliant with Macrovision 7.1.L1 copy protection
for NTSC and PAL. TVX2 is available in both cost- effective
44 LQFP and space-saving 48 TQFP packages.
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