The new universal tuner, the MicroTuner MT2063, brings low-power consumption and multi-standard TV receiver performance to standard consumer products and power-sensitive or space-constrained devices, including small, display TVs, DTT set-top boxes, portable devices and computer-TV products.
The MicroTuner MT2063 is a low power 1GHz tuner chip sampling today that's engineered to exceed the expected performance defined by analog and digital TV standards across the U.S., Europe, Japan and China, according to James Fontaine, president and CEO of Microtune. Additionally, it supports both terrestrial and cable broadcast transmission, meeting all relevant radio frequency (RF) performance requirements.
The MicroTuner MT2063 supports ATSC, DVB-C, DVB-T, DMB-T, ISDB-T, NTSC, PAL, SECAM, as well as U.S. cable networks, including 256 QAM modes. As a strategic advantage, the MT2063 silicon tuner enables manufacturers to combine high-performance digital and analog TV capability with a small form factor and low-power consumption at competitive cost, Fontaine says. It permits them to build multi-standard products today that cost-effectively transition consumers from analog to digital TV transmission, a worldwide TV conversion that is expected to occur at various times in various countries during the next decade, he adds.
The MicroTuner MT2063, along with the company’s portfolio of other products, evaluation boards and reference designs, will be featured in Microtune’s booth at the 16th annual China Content Broadcasting Network (CCBN) trade show held March 22-24 at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing. The MT2063 tuner is sampling now and is priced at US$3.50 in high volume. Initial production is planned for the second quarter of 2008.
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