Single Chip IDTV - AuroraTV
The advent of analogue switch-off has created a marketplace that is full of both challenges and opportunities for manufacturers within the digital television industry. While many EU countries have announced their analogue switchover plans and have mandatory requirements for TVs to include DVB-T support, there remains a lengthy transition period of around 5 – 10 years for analogue-digital broadcasts to become purely digital.
In order to accommodate the need for both analogue and digital support, many manufacturers are compelled to create IDTV solutions which consist of two different chipsets, one for analogue and one for digital. The outcome is a complex solution which revolves around two different software stacks, each with its own independent, and often incongruous, applications and menu designs. As a result manufacturers are being faced with lengthy integration periods for each stack and ultimately a poor end-user experience with consumers being confused by separate menus and service lists. This is especially difficult for manufacturers wishing to target the mid to high-end portion of the IDTV market.
One chip for a high quality viewing experience
In order to support manufacturers in the transition from analogue to digital services, Cabot Communications has developed a single software stack IDTV solution that seamlessly supports both analogue and digital TV broadcasts. This complete, platform independent solution creates a hybrid system which provides both analogue and digital services and performs hybrid operations according to the operation state. In addition to tuning to analogue and digital services, the software will also provide full TV control for picture, sound and interactive services.
Some of the many advantages of this hybrid system include:
- MHEG-5 v1.06 support for UK services
- Teletext support for both digital and analogue services
- The ability to control TV picture and sound settings through a consistent user interface
- Single service list for analogue & digital services
- Single Over Air software Downloads (OADs) for the whole system
- The ability to control external TV input audio-video sources such as HDMI, SCART, VGA, SVID, CVBS, LEFT-RIGHT Audio through one source
- Complete flexibility for the integration of silicon specific features, such as picture image enhancements
- Fully integrated CI stack as well as optional integrated CA modules such as Conax, Cryptoworks, Iredeto and Viaccess
- Soon to be expanded to include internal / external hard drive DTR functionality
For further information regarding this, or any other Cabot solution, please contact us.
