| HDMI 1.3 to provide better DTV images, sound in '07
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2006-12-21 |
| Last week, Silicon Image outlined the benefits of HDMI1.3 for 2007 and beyond. Representatives from Mitsubishi and Dolby were there to discuss as well the virtues of HDMI 1.3 |
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| New tech breaks into network specs war
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2006-12-18 |
| Six top CE vendors formed the WirelessHD group in October to define 60GHz radios that could carry uncompressed high-definition video across the living room at a roaring 5Gbps. |
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| Pressures tip wireless apps toward SiP
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2006-11-28 |
| System-in-Package technology has begun to challenge SoC implementations as a high-level design strategy for selected wireless applications because of lengthening SoC design cycles and other factors. |
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| Silicon Image HDMI transmitter powers ASUS computer
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2006-11-13 |
| Silicon Image announced that ASUSTeK has selected Silicon Image's VastLane SiI1930 HDMI transmitter for its new Asteio D22/D20 DAV Center |
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| CE giants push 60GHz high-def home nets
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2006-11-09 |
| Six top consumer electronics companies are defining a 60GHz radio technology to bring high definition media to the home network. |
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| CE vendors form group to join digital living room duel
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2006-11-09 |
| Last week, six top consumer electronics vendors formed the WirelessHD group to define 60GHz radios that could carry uncompressed high-definition video across the living room at a roaring 5Gbps. |
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| Hitachi picks Cypress clock solutions for HDTV
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2006-10-26 |
| Hitachi Ltd. has chosen Cypress Semiconductor Corp.clocks for the Wooo 9000 series high definition digital TVs. |
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| DisplayPort transmitter supports HDMI
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2006-10-16 |
| Analogix has created a DisplayPort transmitter that's compatible with HDMI, claiming the chip handles both the embedded-clocking scheme of DisplayPort and the clock-forwarding scheme of HDMI with basically a single silicon block |
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| Grappling with digital media fragmentation
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2006-10-02 |
| With networking and security standards fragmented, a bunch of Linux variants and other nagging issues in the remote access and QoS areas, it's a time of fragmentation in the transition to digital home media mix. |
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| Intel hopes to sort digital display interface split
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2006-09-05 |
| Intel announced that it is committing to sorting out the competition between two digital display interfaces by the end of the year. Separately, the company is in talks to move its copy protection technology to a wireless transport such as UWB. |
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| Analogix transmitter merges DisplayPort and HDMI
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2006-09-05 |
| Analogix made a DisplayPort transmitter that's compatible with HDMI; claims the chip handles both the embedded-clocking scheme of DisplayPort and the clock-forwarding scheme of HDMI with basically a single silicon block |
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| ADI chips power Toshiba HD DVD
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2006-08-30 |
| Analog Devices announced that Toshiba has chosen several of ADI's signal processing solutions to power the video and audio signal chains in the industry's first hard disk recorder with high-definition DVD. |
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| Startup offers easy implementation of HD encoding in mobiles
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2006-08-17 |
| Startup MnD Semiconductors announced a chip architecture that "can be easily scaled from low cost, high definition, video decoders to high performance, real time, multi-channel, video encoders and transcoders." |
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| HDMI will boost data rate to 275MHz
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2006-08-01 |
| HDMI 1.3 will increase the copy-protected link's data rate from 165MHz to an expected 275MHz |
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| What will happen to analog video?
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2006-08-01 |
| With the new digital video standards coming into the picture, the common misconception is that analog video is dead or dying. The reality is that analog video is very much alive. |
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| China's second HDMI testing center opens in Shanghai
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2006-07-27 |
| Silicon Image Inc. recently opened China's second HDMI Authorized Testing Center in Shanghai, and announced plans to open a third center also in China |
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| China Video Industry Association to support HDMI
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2006-07-25 |
| Silicon Image has announced an agreement with the China Video Industry Association, under which the latter will promote and support the use of HDMI by the consumer electronics industry in China |
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| Rival display interfaces face off in digital home
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2006-07-01 |
| Separate groups of engineers are finishing work on two incompatible display interfaces—DisplayPort and the Unified Display Interface—vying to become the standard for a secure digital link in consumer systems and computers. |
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| Samsung launches first Blu-ray disc player to U.S. market
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2006-06-19 |
| Samsung Electronics America Inc. announced that the industry's first Blu-ray disc player, BD-P1000, has been shipped to retailers in the U.S. market for availability on June 25th. |
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| Samsung digicams feature Zoran processor
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2006-06-06 |
| Zoran announced that its Coach digital camera processor is used in Samsung's new Digimax L85 and Digimax i6 digital cameras. |
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| SigmaTel to challenge with integrated TV ICs
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2006-05-16 |
| SigmaTel Inc. has entered the TV audio market with a line of high-fidelity, multistandard TV audio processors. |
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| CMD port protector in Micronas' HDTV design
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2006-04-21 |
| California Micro Devices announced that Micronas incorporated its single chip MediaGuard CM2021 port protector into their newest HDTV reference design. |
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| Startup plans HD media processors
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2006-04-17 |
| On industry newcomer Vivace's drawing board are media processors that can play high-definition video while consuming less than half a watt of power. |
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| Samsung delays Blu-ray disc player until late June
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2006-04-05 |
| Samsung is rescheduling its initial U.S. Blu-Ray player launch from May 23 to June 25 in order to complete compatibility testing with several Blu-Ray test discs. |
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| Matsushita rolls HDMI control for flat TV sets
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2006-03-17 |
| Matsushita Electric will offer flat TV sets using high-definition multimedia interface technology in Tokyo next month, with an international introduction following shortly thereafter. |
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| CE products to benefit from PCIe bus
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2006-03-10 |
| During the 11th Annual International IC-China Conference & Exhibition, Philips Semiconductor demonstrated a series of products based on PCIe, including a DVB-T TV receiver card and a 4-channel video server. |
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| High def heads for masses
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2006-03-01 |
| Support for copy-protected high-definition video is poised to come to mainstream PCs and camcorders as early as 2007. |
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| Silicon Image's HDMI transmitters in ASUSTek, Hitachi PCs
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2006-01-09 |
| Silicon Image announced that ASUSTek Computer and Hitachi have selected its SiI 1930 and SiI 1390 HDMI transmitters for their multimedia desktop and notebook PCs |
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| LG HDTV powered by SpatiaLight imagers
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2005-12-27 |
| SpatiaLight announced that LG Electronics has introduced its 2006 HDTV product lineup highlighted in the above 50-inch category by two LCoS models using SpatiaLight's microdisplays. |
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| New digital display interface standard in the works
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2005-12-22 |
| Leading PC and consumer electronics companies are working to develop a specification that is intended to serve as the next-gen digital display interface standard for PCs and provide compatibility with CE devices. |
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