ViewSonic has selected Trident's DPTV3DPRO video processor and PanelPro Multimedia (PMM) LCD controller solution for one of its next generation LCD TV product lines.

LCD technology is rapidly extending beyond the traditional desktop monitor to accommodate the latest in digital content. For this product line, ViewSonic believes that Trident's DPTV3DPRO and PMM solutions deliver outstanding video and PC data image quality to give users the ultimate desktop experience, from standard computer applications to HDTV viewing.

Trident says its alliance with ViewSonic will help make the convergence of digital video and data a reality. ViewSonic constantly raises the performance bar in a new display category that extends beyond the traditional applications of a desktop computer monitor to include enhanced television and entertainment capabilities, such as High Definition Television (HDTV).

Trident's DPTV3DPRO integrates an advanced third-generation 3-D digital comb video decoder for NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats. Based on Trident's proprietary patented unified memory architecture (UMA), DPTV(TM)3DPRO requires no extra frame buffers for performing 3D comb filtering. With film-mode recovery, DPTV 3DPRO correctly detects the frame rates of incoming video sources, and then dynamically restores the video source to the original film mode sequences in play back. The motion adaptive de-interlacing and edge-smoothing feature of the DPTV3DPRO refines the video display quality. The DPTV3DPRO enables a SDTV signal to display in Picture-in-Picture mode, Picture-Out-Picture mode, and 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio modes. DPTV3DPRO supports non-linear scaling in the panorama mode to ensure a most natural picture aspect ratio for the viewers.