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Panasonic Launches World's First HDTV Solution for Personal Computers
Business Wire - November 09, 1998 13:56
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SECAUCUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 1998--
PC-DTV Card Is Fully Compatible With All ATSC Formats + NTSC
Following up on the start of the nation's new digital broadcasting system on November 1, Panasonic Industrial Company today announced the availability of the computer industry's first all-format digital television (DTV) tuner/decoder card.
The PC-DTV tuner/decoder card (Model TB1T) which was developed in collaboration with Compaq Computer Corporation, is a PCI-based, two-board solution that enables computers to receive, decode and display high-definition and digital TV signals on the screen of a PC. It consists of 1) a tuner board which receives and passes-through both Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) format digital signals as well as the current NTSC analog TV signals over a PCI bus, and 2) a video decoder board which decodes digital TV signals in all 18 ATSC formats for display of high-definition video images or 480p standard-definition video images over a VIP-2 bus.
"Next year, PC-DTV devices will provide an exciting new market opportunity for Panasonic," said Ash Chabra, Group Manager of the Electronic Components Group of Panasonic Industrial Company. "By supplying our personal computer OEMs with these boards, we expect to accelerate the development of high-definition and digital TV in this country. Our strength is that we can provide end-to-end DTV solutions for PC's, including individual DTV system components, from the RF tuner through the all-format MPEG-2 video decoder."
Panasonic will initially market this DTV-PC card system on an OEM basis to computer manufacturers, peripheral board manufacturers, TV broadcasters, content creation studios and content developers. Samples will be available by the end of this year with targeted volume production in early spring 1999.
Panasonic Industrial Company also announced the immediate availability of the 8VSB TS output board (Model TTM1A), which outputs an 8-bit parallel transport stream (TS) from the RF input of broadcast DTV signals. This board will greatly help computer manufacturers, digital television/set-top box manufacturers and silicon developers accelerate their DTV product development.
Both of the new products are manufactured by Osaka, Japan-based Matsushita Electronic Components Co., Ltd., the electronic components arm of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE:MC), a world leader in the development of digital television and other digital electronics products and technologies.
Matsushita Electronic Components is a leading worldwide supplier of standard and highly customized electronic components. Panasonic Industrial Company, a Division of Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, is based in Secaucus, NJ, and is the sales and marketing channel for electronic components to customers in North America.
Panasonic's development of HDTV and digital television in the U.S. has been centered at Panasonic AVC American Laboratories, Inc. Based in Burlington, NJ, the company developed the world's first single-chip, all-format digital television decoder which is incorporated in the new PC-DTV decoder device.
For more information on Panasonic or Matsushita Electric, visit our web site at www.panasonic.com
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