Samsung Electronics Unveils World's First Single Chip for Mobile Digital TV Standard

The mobile digital TV market received another boost as Samsung Electronics reportedly developed the world’s first single chip compatible with the newly approved North American mobile digital TV broadcasting standard.

 

Mobile digital broadcast TV combines TV and mobile phones to provide television on the go. The DTV chain works with carriers, handset providers, infrastructure owners, content providers, broadcasters and semiconductor suppliers and caters to a new generation of customers.

 

Combining the radio frequency and digital chip components, Samsung’s (News - Alert) latest chip innovation delivers one single 65 nanometer-scale chip. This allows the manufacturers of the mobile phones to design phones that consume less power, and is more affordable to the customers. The Advanced Television Systems Committee standardizes mobile digital TV broadcasting with the help of the existing digital TV broadcasting spectrum and facilities since May 2007.

 

“Prior to Samsung’s technical demonstration at the 2006 NAB Show, industry experts believed that the compatibility of mobile TV broadcasting technology with the existing ATSC broadcasting system was not possible.” said. Byung Duck Cho, executive vice president of the digital media and communications R&D center of Samsung Electronics, in a statement. “In early 2005, Samsung Electronics decided to apply significant resources to ATSC standardization.”

 

ATSC Mobile DTV makes live mobile broadcast TV possible by installing minimal additional equipment at existing TV transmitters. Already, more than 70 broadcast stations have announced their support of this initiative and broadcast the same on a trial basis across North America by the end of 2009. Samsung is looking to prepare the pitch prepare for formal broadcasting tests to North American consumers in the near future.

 

Recently, the company announced the release of its Lapfit monitors, LD220G & LD190N, for use as a secondary display for notebook PCs. Now available through Samsung resellers and retailers at an estimated street price of $249.99 and $149.99, respectively, Lapfit offers notebook users the benefits of having dual displays to view multiple Web sites, documents, tool palettes and widgets.