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Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Microtune | Subject: MicroTuner MT2131
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 February 2006

TV tuner chip packages three types in
one

A breakthrough three-in-one TV tuner is engineered to drive very high-end digital TV reception quality into the cost-sensitive consumer TV mass market.

Anticipating the massive technology transformation that will convert the North American TV market to all-digital broadcasts, Microtune has unveiled a breakthrough three-in-one TV tuner engineered to drive very high-end digital TV reception quality into the cost-sensitive consumer TV mass market Integrating three tuners - analogue, digital and cable - in a tiny chip smaller than a thumbtack, Microtune's new MicroTuner MT2131 tuner delivers benchmark-setting performance that exceeds all three existing US TV requirements: ATSC, NTSC and Digital Cable Ready (DCR)

Eliminating more than 100 components from the silicon tuner bill of materials (BOM), the MT2131 slashes external BOM cost by 60%.

By breaking through the sub-$3.00 cost barrier, it finally enables manufacturers to deploy a tuner with an unmatched level of performance across all TV models, sizes and price points - from multiple-tuner giant-screen home theatres to small, affordable LCD TVs and inexpensive DTV set-top convertor boxes.

Inventor of the single-chip silicon TV tuner, Microtune is leading the market in broadband silicon TV tuner chips with products deployed today in digital/analogue TVs, personal video recorder (PVR) set-top boxes, cable modems, digital telephony modems, computers, portable DVD players, multimedia cards and PC-TV adapters.