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Technology Stocks : CRUS, good buy?

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Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: Grand Poobah who wrote (5442)	3/30/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: mpegleg	of 8193

> Does anyone know what competition they face on the controller side? Philips has the SAA7335 which does some of the read channel functions, though I don't think its as highly integrated as the Cirrus part. Toshiba also has a chipset performing these functions (TA1236F is an RF amp, TC9420F is a servo processor, TC90A19F is a data processor (ECC), etc.). They will surely be pursuing the same level of integration as Cirrus. They did the same thing on the A/V side - started with 5 chips that is now heading to one with their Timpani chip. >"content scramble system (CSS)," >I presume this is the encoding system that Hollywood >wanted to prevent DVD's from being copied. Does anyone >know for sure? Yes, you have CSS right, but I think that only part of it goes in this read channel chip. Wouldn't make much sense to decrypt it here, and pass it to an external MPEG-2 A/V chip unencrypted!

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