Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: DMN-8604
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 9 January 2007
Processor gives DVD
recorders a global dimension
LG Electronics has developed a new line of DVD recorders for worldwide markets using the fourth-generation LSI DoMiNo recorder processor, the DMN-8604
These products will be available in 2007. 'As a leader in the DVD recorder market, LG requires solutions that not only meet our rigorous standards, but address the diversity of the worldwide DVD recorder market', said Tae Ki Shin, Vice President of Video R and D, Digital Media Company, of LG Electronics.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 January 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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'LG was able to develop new DVD recorders for both the North American and European markets using the LSI DMN-8604'.
'Its higher integration levels enabled us to add consumer-requested features such as USB connectivity, while simultaneously reducing our bill of materials and total system cost'.
The new line of LG Electronics DVD recorders includes four models, each tailored to specific markets.
The single-drive LG DR299H-S for the North American market and the DR298H-M for the European market are super-multi DVD recorders that can record content using any DVD format (DVD+R/+RW, -R/-RW, and RAM), providing consumers with the ultimate recording and playback flexibility.
Other features include 1080i up-conversion with HDMI output for connection to HDTVs, USB interfaces for connection to digital cameras, and an IEEE1394 input for digital camcorder support.
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Two other models integrate VCR decks for one-touch dubbing of personal content from VHS to DVD and include the LG RC289H-S for the North American market and the RC297H-M for the European market.
All LG products feature the patented LSI DVFX enhanced video quality processing technologies and are labelled with the DVFX logo to assure consumers that they are purchasing products with superior video recording and viewing capabilities.
'These new LG DVD recorders, based on the LSI DoMiNo DMN-8604 DVD recorder processor, give consumers the features that they want and the high quality audio and video performance that they have come to expect from LG products', said Jim Fox, Director of DVD Recorder Marketing, Consumer Products Group, LSI Logic.
'With each new generation of the DoMiNo DVD recorder processor, LSI continues to integrate additional functionality and assure backward compatibility'.
'These features enable customers like LG to quickly deliver new products, which is critical in today's competitive consumer electronics markets'.
The DMN-8604 is highly integrated, has advanced features and is optimised to address the needs of the worldwide, high-volume, DVD recorder market while reducing bill-of-materials (BOM).
The DMN-8604 provides all of the functionality required for entry-level, single-drive DVD recorders and combo VCR/DVD recorders with analogue TV tuners.
The DMN-8604 supports not only standard DVD recording and playback using the MPEG-2 format, it also supports video encoding in the MPEG-4 and DivX formats, which extends the amount of content that can be recorded on a single DVD to 12 hours.
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