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News Release from: Imagination Technologies | Subject: EPG support for DAB
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 February 2005
DAB digital radios
gain electronic programme guide
Imagination Technologies will be demonstrating electronic programme guide (EPG) support for DAB digital radios at 3GSM 2005
The company will also be showing the first handheld DAB radio with pause, rewind, record and MP3 support. EPG receiver and front-end software from Ensigma, a division of Imagination Technologies, can be seen on both the WorldDAB (Hall 5, M42-56) and Imagination Technologies (Hall 4, K9) stands.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 February 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Says David McBrien, VP Business Development, Imagination Technologies: 'The EPG brings the functionality we now take for granted in digital television broaDCasts to DAB digital radio and is set to permanently change the way listeners interact with their radios'.
Both Ensigma and Pure Digital have been actively involved in the WorldDAB EPG TaskForce's development of a new open standard EPG.
Imagination's IP dominates the DAB market, with 70% market share.
It played a pivotal role in key DAB innovations such as the first sub-GBP 100 DAB receivers and the first DAB radios with pause, rewind and record.
Imagination Technologies' IP features in the vast majority of handheld DAB products and the WorldDAB press event at 3GSM will see the debut of the first handheld DAB radios with pause and record.
The new Kino chip from Frontier Silicon, launched at the show, provides a dedicated hardware solution for T-DMB based on the Meta processor core and Ensigma UCC (Universal Communications Coprocessor) intellectual property licensed from Imagination Technologies.
This provides mobile TV handset manufacturers with maximum flexibility for configuring their handsets and the options that they can provide to their customers.
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