02-02-2006, 12:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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ATI Enters Mobile TV Market with a Complete DVB-H Solution
"Leveraging its vast expertise in the DTV and handheld markets, ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) is introducing a single chip, DVB-H compliant, Mobile TV Receiver solution for mobile phones and other handheld devices. ATI's Imageon(R) TV solutions are designed to offer handset manufacturers with system-level flexibility, high integration, low power and optimal BOM cost. The WTV100-M is a single chip front-end that integrates a dual-band RF tuner (UHF for Europe and L-Band for US) with a highly integrated DVB-T/DVB-H OFDM demodulator and all necessary discretes in a SiP (System-in-Package). The WTV100-M component interfaces seamlessly to ATI's Imageon media processors, as the audio and video decoders, for a complete and state-of-the-art end-to-end DVB-H solution."
ATI has just announced the WTV100-M mobile TV chip, which will be released to manufacturers in mid-2006. It would be nice having more TV-enabled mobile devices in the market, so let's hope that ATI's latest chip will get the ball rolling.
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02-02-2006, 01:16 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2004
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To be honest I don't get this TV chips. I mean with the rapid growth of 3G broadband networks. Most if not all TV can be streamed over a network. And if you have an unlimited data plan the only extra might be a subscription fee.
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02-02-2006, 11:16 AM
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Sage
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Originally Posted by alabij
To be honest I don't get this TV chips. I mean with the rapid growth of 3G broadband networks. Most if not all TV can be streamed over a network. And if you have an unlimited data plan the only extra might be a subscription fee.
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My understanding is that digital video requires an enormous amount of bandwidth to achieve 30fps, and although they could attempt to stream video data (in this case, TV) over 3G UMTS/HSDPA, once the service caught on, it would require more bandwidth than the networks would have available; it would clog things up and bring video to a crawl. Hence, the need for a separate network, and then, a separate chip.
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02-02-2006, 11:19 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
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In fact, here's a good article on the subject: Mobile TV.
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