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Trident Technologies, a subsidiary of Trident Microsystems will
demonstrate its HiDTV system on a chip device at next year's Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In addition, it will offer
a preview of the DPTV SVP advanced digital TV reference designs
for HDTV, HDTV-Ready TVs, LCD TVs, DLP TVs, projection TVs, and
plasma TVs. Trident develops cutting-edge Digital TV technology
for the consumer digital video marketplace, CES takes place from
8-11 January.
Trident claims that its HiDTV device is the world's first highly
integrated system-on-a-chip solution that supports both the analog
and digital video processing capabilities in a single device. It
integrates a lot of things including a 32-bit MIPS microprocessor,
a DSP accelerator, a MPEG MP@ HL video decoder, a programmable MPEG
audio decoder supporting AC3, AAC and MPEG2 audio, a transport stream
de-multiplexer that supports ATSC and DVB standard. Trident's HiDTV
system-on-a-chip device is designed to provide the most integrated
and comprehensive solution with a user-friendly HDTV development
SDKs that enables Trident's HDTV customers to provide HDTV, digital
set-top-box and digital tuner box through fast prototyping and easy
integration; thus shortening the time-to-market for HDTV products.
The other product that will be on display the DPTV SVP video processor
features the award-winning Digital Cinema Reality engine (DCRe)
technology. It includes an advanced 3-D digital comb color decoder,
pixel-perfect motion adaptive de-interlacing, vertical and horizontal
sharpness enhancement, object-based intelligent digital noise reduction,
dynamic Average Picture Level (APL) feedback to enhance picture
dynamic range. It also has a DETI engine that provides colour vividness
and black and white extensions as well as LCD overdrive circuitry.
This improves the LCD panel response time. Trident claims that its
proprietary DCRe technology delivers vivid cinema-realistic motion
and still images for high-performance flat-panel LCD TVs, rear-projection
TVs and Plasma display TV applications.
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