Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: DMN-8652
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 January 2004
Processor takes charge
of combination recorders
The DiMeNsion 8652 is billed as the industry's most comprehensive and feature-rich hard disk drive (HDD)/DVD recorder system processor
The DiMeNsion 8652 (DMN-8652) is billed as the industry's most comprehensive and feature-rich hard disk drive (HDD)/DVD recorder system processor. The device is LSI Logic's second-generation, high-performance, single-chip device based on the field-proven DoMiNo architecture. The DMN-8652 is designed to help manufacturers offer combination recorder models by addressing the performance and design requirements needed to enable the increasingly popular features of digital video recorders (DVRs) and DVD recorders.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 January 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to In-Stat/MDR, the combination HDD/DVD recorder total available market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 90% through 2007.
'We've seen surprising interest from consumers for combo devices in general, like DVD player/VCR combos.
It's easy to see how an HDD/DVD recorder combo, with all of its specialized features, could be even more appealing to consumers', said Michelle Abraham, Senior Analyst with In-Stat/MDR.
'The HDD/DVD recorder combo expands upon the features of a single-drive DVD recorder by offering consumers features like video library, audio jukebox, video dubbing, and time-shifting of live TV', said Timothy Vehling, Senior Director of Marketing for Consumer AV Products, LSI Logic's Broadband Entertainment Division.
'Performing these features well and providing faster-than-real-time video dubbing are key requirements to ensure a positive user experience for this class of products.
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Manufacturers need to leverage high-performance, single-chip solutions like the DMN-8652 to meet this growing market requirement'.
Supporting the same industry-leading integration that made the LSI Logic DMN-8650 the industry's first single-chip, HDD/DVD recorder system processor, the DMN-8652 further integrates a second dedicated ATAPI port, an NTSC/PAL TV encoder, video DACs and a USB controller, and offers the following features: two independent ATAPI interfaces allowing simultaneous, hardware-accelerated access to a DVD recorder drive and a hard disk drive; concurrent operation of time shifting (pause, rewind and fast-forward of live television) while archiving programmes from hard disk to DVD; faster-than-real-time copy, transcode and transrate operations between HDD and DVD recordable media; MPEG-4 video technology playback; state-of-the-art DoMiNoFX video-processing technologies such as TrueView Pro, TrueScan Pro and PerfectView Pro enable the highest quality video for DVD recording, playback and archiving; integrated DV codec with Direct Digital Dub technology simplifies the transfer of personal digital content from a camcorder to DVD over FireWire, with one-touch control via a single remote; and software compatibility with previous generations of LSI Logic DoMiNo-based architectures.
Abraham continued: 'The compelling feature set of LSI Logic's HDD/DVD recorder processor combined with their high level of integration will help manufacturers drive competitive prices to facilitate mass consumer adoption of DVD recorder combination products'.
The DMN-8652 is available now to qualified customers at less than $28 in high volume.
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