Video chips power Chinese set-top boxes
Categories: Microprocessors, UncategorizedSupraTV processora are at the heart of new families of cable set-top boxes from Xoceco, now shipping into the Chinese market
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Zoran’s SupraTV processor is now powering new families of cable set-top boxes from Xoceco, now shipping in the Chinese market. Zoran is demonstrating the Xoceco DM518 set-top box products along with its newest digital television products and platforms for consumer electronics manufacturers in Hall 1B, Booth B163 at the China Cable Broadcasting Network 2007 conference (CCBN) in Beijing.
‘Zoran’s SupraTV processor has proven an excellent choice for developing our China Cable set-top boxes, which Xoceco is now shipping in Xiamen Cable’, says Mike Zheng, Vice President R and D and General Manager at Xoceco.
‘Working with Zoran allows us to deliver high-quality, cost- effective set-top boxes at affordable consumer price points’.
‘We expect our partnership to continue to deliver new products for the growing China Cable set-top box market’.
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‘Zoran, as a leading developer of new technology for the digital set-top box market, is pleased to support Xoceco’s established sales channels and its reputation as a high quality supplier of large-volume consumer products’, says Andrew Gane, Senior Director, digital television product line at Zoran.
‘These new products are a result of our previously announced joint lab collaboration including digital television products based on Zoran’s processors’.
‘All indications point to strong growth in the cable and terrestrial markets served by Xoceco’s products using Zoran’s SupraTV and SupraHD processors’.
Xoceco’s Zoran-based cable set-top boxes deliver: Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - cable and MPEG2-compliant audio and video decoding; a seven day electronic programming guide (EPG), multilanguage on-screen display (OSD), cable channel autoscan, DVB-subtitles, OSD teletext decoding, software updates via over-air-download and serial port.
They also support composite + s-video outputs, stereo audio and audio output via S/PDIF, infra-red remote, RF input and loop-through.
Xoceco’s China cable set-top boxes also support the most popular conditional access and data browser software.