Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Broadcom announces industry's first low cost, HD cable converter box solution with integrated DVB-C tuner

BEIJING, CHINA: Broadcom Corp. has announced the industry's first low cost, high definition (HD) DVB-C digital cable converter box system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution featuring an integrated DVB-C tuner and QAM demodulator, and HD advanced video coding (AVC) support covering MPEG2, VC-1 and China's audio/video coding standard (AVS).

As the momentum to deploy HD programming in China intensifies, the Broadcom BCM7580 DVB-C HD cable converter box solution enables Chinese cable providers to more cost-effectively offer subscribers HD TV programming and two-way interactive services.

With AVS support, the new BCM7580 SoC solution further supports China's advanced video decoding format in low cost HD set-top box (STB) platforms. Broadcom will be demonstrating the BCM7580 cable converter box solution at this week's China Content Broadcasting Network (CCBN) Conference in its booth #3501.

Broadcom's BCM7580 is the industry's first HD digital cable SoC solution to combine an integrated DVB-C radio frequency (RF) tuner, dynamic power management, an MPEG2/AVC/AVS HD decoder, HDMI, Ethernet and USB, connectivity, a smartcard interface, FLASH and DDR2/3 functions.

The BCM7580 is sampling to set-top box manufacturers.

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