Broadcom’s New Digital TV Solutions Bring Advanced Functionality and Differentiated Features to TV Manufacturers

Broadcom's New Digital TV Solutions Bring Advanced Functionality and Differentiated Features to TV Manufacturers

Broadcom announced its next generation of digital television (DTV) system-on-a chip (SoC) solutions that bring advanced functionality and differentiated features to DTV designs to address the U.S. market.

Broadcom announced its next generation of digital television (DTV) system-on-a chip (SoC) solutions that bring advanced functionality and differentiated features to DTV designs to address the U.S. market. Featuring expandable entry-level to high-end design capabilities, the new SoC solutions enable TV manufacturers to enhance the DTV from a commodity display device to a highly differentiated, connected entertainment system. Included in each of these single-chip solutions are an advanced multi-format decoder, Ethernet network connectivity, a 3D graphical user interface, and unique 3D color management, all of which continue to position the TV as the central entertainment appliance for the digital home.

To provide TV manufacturers with the most advanced technology for the growing digital TV market, the company today announced the Broadcom BCM3548 and BCM3549 single-chip DTV solutions that leverage the advanced design of the Broadcom BCM3556 DTV solution that includes support for digital video broadcast (DVB)-based platforms to address European and Asian markets. These three highly integrated single-chip SoC solutions allow TV manufacturers to offer their customers a variety of the latest features and interactivity. All three chips provide advanced multi-format decoding in support of high definition AVC, H.264, VC-1, AVS and MPEG-2 streams. By supporting H.264, the latest video compression standard, the BCM3548 and BCM3549 enable users to view multimedia and HD content from networked devices, with improved picture quality.

The BCM3548 and BCM3549 each integrates a host of unique features that allow TV manufacturers to create differentiated products, and when combined with improved picture quality, will enrich the consumers' DTV experience. One such feature is a 3D graphics core that provides consumers with a graphical user interface for flipping, rotating, moving or manipulating images, and enables OEMs to create specialized user interfaces that differentiates the TV from traditional flat, two dimensional user interfaces.