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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 February 2006-Microtune: Microtune's new 3-in-1 TV tuner breaks cost barrier in bringing benchmark-setting digital TV performance to mass market(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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PLANO, Texas - Anticipating the massive technology transformation that will convert the North American TV market to all-digital broadcasts, Microtune , Inc. (Nasdaq:TUNE) today unveiled a breakthrough 3-in-1 TV tuner engineered to drive very high-end digital TV reception quality into the cost-sensitive consumer TV mass market.
Integrating three tuners -- analog, digital and cable -- in a tiny chip smaller than a thumbtack, Microtune's new MicroTuner(TM) MT2131 tuner delivers benchmark-setting performance that exceeds all three existing U.S. TV requirements: ATSC, NTSC and Digital Cable Ready (DCR). Eliminating more than one hundred components from the silicon tuner bill of materials (BOM), the MT2131 slashes external BOM cost by sixty percent. By breaking through the sub-$3.00 cost barrier, it finally enables manufacturers to deploy a tuner with an unmatched level of performance across all TV models, sizes and price points -- from multi-tuner, giant-screen home theatres to small, affordable LCD TVs and inexpensive DTV set-top converter boxes.
Inventor of the single-chip silicon TV tuner, Microtune is leading the market in broadband silicon TV tuner chips with products deployed today in digital/analog TVs, personal video recorder (PVR) set-top boxes, cable modems, digital telephony modems, computers, portable DVD players, multimedia cards and PC-TV adaptors.
"Based on years of R&D investment, the MT2131 is engineered to be the industry's best TV tuner," said James A. Fontaine, Microtune's President and CEO. "It is the only device, module or silicon, to fully support North American analog and digital TV transmissions across either cable or terrestrial broadcasts. Manufacturers can use our single, flexible tuner to cost-effectively smooth the digital...
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