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Adds IF compensation, 3-D comb filtering, other features
Paris - Texas Instruments Inc. will unveil a video decoder today that deploys image improvement features for high-end DVD recorders and the TV market.
The TVP5160 chip translates analog video signals from sources such as NTSC, PAL and secam (Systeme Electronique Couleur avec Memoire) into digital video for display on TV or for storage on DVD disks.
The chip includes such image improvement features as 2-D and 3-D comb filtering, time-based correction, noise reduction, intermediate-frequency (IF) compensation and 480 progressive-video processing.
The single-chip digital video decoder, capable of operating all of these noise-reduction functions concurrently, takes over the tasks that are often carried out by two or three separate chips in a high-end DVD recorder or TV set today, according to Ron Richter, worldwide marketing manager for TI's mixed-signal video group.
TI hopes that its family of mixed-signal video decoder ICs will help it effectively compete against such dominant players as Philips Semiconductors and Micronas. TI has been in...