Broadcom Announces Industry’s Most Advanced High Definition Television Chip That Supports Both Analog and Digital Reception

Broadcom Announces Industry's Most Advanced High Definition Television Chip That Supports Both Analog and Digital Reception

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced a highly integrated, single-chip solution for televisions that enables consumer electronics manufacturers to develop complete lines of affordable televisions that support analog, high definition (HD), standard definition (SD) and digital cable television programming featuring superior video, audio and graphics quality.

“Television manufacturers are being faced with the added costs of transitioning their entire product lines over to support both analog and digital television signals for cable and broadcast channels,” said Daniel Marotta, Group Vice President of Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group. “Our single-chip TV solution greatly reduces the complexity and cost of the system design, enabling manufacturers to transition their entire product lines to affordable high-quality analog/digital televisions in a variety of size and display options.”

The Broadcom® BCM3560 television-on-a-chip represents the television industry's first single-chip solution that is compatible with the National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) analog standard, the North American digital terrestrial or Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) digital standard, and the digital cable television standard.