Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Anchor Bay Technologies | Subject: ABT2010
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 January 2007
Processor claims unprecedented viewing experience
Video-processing IC is designed for format-conversion applications in HDTVs, DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray player/recorders, and AV receivers
New from Anchor Bay, the ABT2010 is a video-processing IC designed for format-conversion applications in HDTVs, DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray player/recorders, and AV receivers. In addition to featuring Video Reference Series (VRS) Precision Video Scaling II, Precision Deinterlacing, noise reduction and image enhancement, the ABT2010 is Anchor Bay's first chip to offer OEMs Progressive Reprocessing (PReP) technology.
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Anchor Bay's ABT2010 video-processing chip features all the processing power of Anchor Bay's VRS technologies, including 10bit Precision Video Scaling II that can independently scale an image horizontally and vertically to achieve outstanding picture quality for today's high-resolution video displays.
The ABT2010 also features HD Precision Deinterlacing, which provides five-field motion-adaptive and edge-adaptive processing for an artefact-free viewing experience.
Noise-reduction technologies reduce the noise caused by compression in today's digital content, while picture-enhancement technologies increase edge and fine image detail when low-resolution images are presented on high-resolution displays.
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Deinterlacing and scaling boost DVD quality
Anchor Bay's ABT102 and ABT1010 video processing ICs have been chosen by Arcam for use in the new DV139 DVD player
The new chip is also Anchor Bay's first IC to feature PReP technology, a breakthrough processing method that reverts the progressive video signal output from source equipment, such as DVD players, AV receivers, and set-top boxes, to its original interlaced format and then converts the interlaced signal to progressive format using Precision Deinterlacing, eliminating 'jaggies', combing and other degrading effects.
PReP technology allows 480p, 576p, 1080p/50, 1080p/60, and other progressive formats that are originally interlaced to be processed by this method.
For an unprecedented viewing experience, the ABT2010 also allows consumer electronics manufacturers to implement VRS RightRate, Anchor Bay's tearless frame-rate-conversion technology that maintains progressive source cadence; VRS AutoCUE-C, which automatically detects and removes chroma upsampling errors; and VRS Precision AV LipSync, which delays audio to match video-processing delays.
The ABT2010 supports HDMI 1.3 with 12bit output resolutions, as well as passthrough mode for all formats.
'The ABT2010 is an exciting breakthrough for the video-processing industry', said Craig Soderquist, CEO at Anchor Bay.
'For consumer electronics manufacturers, our chip provides PReP, Precision Video Scaling II, Precision Deinterlacing, and the host of VRS technologies in one convenient solution'.
'With our ASIC in their products, OEMs can take the quality of their customers' displays to a whole new level'.
The ABT2010 IC samples will be available Q2 2007.
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