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Decoder, demodulator support high-definition and standard broadcasts
Paris - ATI Technologies Inc. is rolling out a digital TV chip that integrates front-end digital terrestrial and cable demodulators and a back-end high-definition MPEG-2 decoder. The X210VC "DTV-on-chip" will give ATI "at least a two-year jump" on DTV silicon competitors, said director of marketing Mike Gittings.
While many semiconductor companies continue to sit on the fence or have given up on the U.S. terrestrial DTV market, consumer electronics suppliers are scrambling to meet the Federal Communications Commission's digital tuner mandate, which requires TV makers to equip at least 50 percent of their 36-inch and larger TVs with a terrestrial digital TV tuner/decoder by July 1 (see story, page 18).
Aside from Matsushita, which developed its own digital TV...