SkyTune, Sarnoff To Develop Digital TV Receiver For PCs.SkyTune and Sarnoff Corp. have announced an agreement to develop products which will allow PC and information appliance See Internet appliance. (hardware) Information Appliance - (IA) A consumer device that performs only a few targeted tasks and is controlled by a simple touch-screen interface or push buttons on the device's enclosure. vendors to build low-cost digital television (DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. ) and datacasting reception capabilities into their products. SkyTune is a manufacturer of DTV and datacasting receivers for PCs and information appliances. Sarnoff helped develop the DTV/HDTV technology for the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. (Advanced Television Systems Committee) standard recently approved for use in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Under the deal, SkyTune will incorporate Sarnoff's approaches for reliable reception of ATSC DTV broadcasts into jointly developed products specifically for the PC and datacasting information appliance markets. SkyTune and Sarnoff say their initial offering, the SKY5201, will be the foundation for a family of low-cost, PC-centric ATSC broadcast receivers. Engineering samples of receivers based on the SKY5201 will be available mid-2000. |
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