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Article: Cost Reduction by Up to 30 Percent; Single-Chip Scan-Rate Converter Moves Progressive Scan Television Into Consumer Mass Markets.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 8, 2002
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FREIBURG, Germany -- Micronas announced today that the company will start volume production of its scan-rate converter chips VSP 94x7B in the second quarter of 2002. The VSP 94x7B chips support conversion into progressive scan display formats as required for optimized image quality in NTSC TV-sets (NTSC is a broadcasting standard in the USA, Japan and Korea) and for new flat panel technologies such as LCDs and plasma displays.
To complete front-end processing, including the input switching matrix with the ITU-656 interface for IDTV decoders and two integrated multi-standard video decoders, all functions required for a simultaneous processing of two video channels ...