The digital media business unit of Trident Microsystems which claims to be a worldwide leader in developing cutting-edge digital video processing technology for the consumer digital video marketplace, today announced its third-generation single-chip video processor solution, the DPTV3DPRO.

This new generation video processor raises the standard of the digitally processed video-image quality to be cinema-realistic, matching the image quality of motion pictures. DPTV3DPRO integrates an enhanced multi-standard 3-D digital comb video decoder, pixel-perfect edge smoothing circuitry, and object-based digital noise reduction among other enhanced digital procession techniques that deliver film-quality motion and still video images.

An official release informs that DPTV3DPRO is ideal for digital progressive, plasma, LCD, and rear projection television applications, where high-precision video processing and image enhancements are required. . The DPTV3DPRO chip is designed to deliver the high-quality video anticipated for the newly emerging large-sized flat panels, such as PDPs (Plasma Display Panels), LCD, and projection TVs. The DPTV3DPRO contains three major technologies: advanced 3D decoder, pixel-perfect edge smoothing, and object-based digital noise reduction working dynamically to reproduce cinema-realistic quality video onto large-sized progressive display devices.

Trident's DPTV3DPRO integrates an advanced third-generation 3-D digital comb video decoder for NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats. Trident's 3-D digital video decoder reads consecutive horizontal scanning lines within each video frame making corrections as it goes, to ensure maximum picture detail and resolution. Based on Trident's patented proprietary unified memory architecture (UMA), DPTV(TM)3DPRO digital comb video decoder requires no extra frame buffers for performing 3D comb filtering. This feature translates into further cost saving for the TV OEMs. With film-mode recovery, DPTV(TM)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.

Furthermore the graphic-based On-Screen Display provides the most user-friendly and graphic-oriented TV menu control interface. The video stream can be refreshed in either the Interlace or the Progressive modes.