Philips new hybrid Silicon Tuner adds worldwide HD & PVR capability to small PC platforms and saves up to 25% on costs
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI), the leading provider of Silicon Tuners, today announced TDA18271HD, a new worldwide multi-standard hybrid Silicon Tuner IC capable of receiving both analog and digital terrestrial broadcasts. This product is benefiting the PC-TV market with fast time-to-market, space savings, HD picture quality and significant cost advantages. The new Silicon Tuner now enables, for example, smaller sized Personal Video Recording (PVR) capable PC based systems to have low power consumption, a key advantage in portable USB peripherals.
Production ready reference design supports digital transition and speeds up time-to-market for affordable Personal Video Recording worldwide
The new silicon tuner:
- is quick and easy to design-in
- is significantly smaller than traditional can tuners
- offers a field-proven, production ready reference design
- covers analog and digital broadcast standards
- enables superb HD picture quality and video reception
- reduces the Bill-of-Material (BoM) by up to 25 percent
- has low power consumption, less than 800 mW
- meets CENELEC & Nordig specifications
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