Zoran Announces Third Generation DVD Recording Platform
January 15, 2004
Sunnyvale, CA - Zoran Corporation has announced a new single-board DVD recording platform, developed in cooperation with SANYO Semiconductor Company.
This will enable OEMs to introduce sub-$200 DVD recorders in 2004, the manufacturer describes.
The new Zoran-Sanyo Semiconductor Company enabled platform supports recording of multiple formats, such as DVD -/+ R/RW and CD-R/RW. One of its key features is "watch and record", where the user can watch a DVD title while recording another program. In addition, the system offers time shifting using either a hard disk drive or a DVD recordable disc. Up to six hours of recording can be stored on a single DVD disc, reminiscent of the SP/LP/ELP modes on VCRs.
The new reference design combines the high performance, cost optimized back-end components from Zoran, Activa 100 and Vaddis 5R, with a mature front-end solution from Sanyo Semiconductor Company, LC 897490K and Asahi Kasei Microsystems (AKM) AK8584, reports indicate.
This first version of the single-board reference design has been carefully matched and tuned for the Sanyo OPU. This tuned front end and OPU combination enables OEMs to offer optimized solutions capable of high performance recording and playback. The flexibility of the baseline printed circuit board and software design allows consumer electronics manufacturers and OEMs to offer multiple product variations combining optical disc drives, hard disc drives or VCRs.
The reference design components, Activa 100, Vaddis 5R, LC897490 and the SANYO OPU are in production and shipping in volume. Activa 100 includes an MPEG encoder and DV25 decoder. Vaddis 5R includes a powerful CPU, CSS/CPPM/CPRM copy protection technologies, DVD decoder, picture in picture, and high quality progressive video encoder.
The LC897490K can support multiple write formats -- DVD -/+ R/RW, and CD-R/RW. AKM AK8584 provides a high performance Analog Front End function necessary to implement writable DVD drive. It supports multiple write formats -- DVD-/+R/-/+RW, DVD-RAM, and CD-R/RW.
For more information, visit
www.zoran.com
or
http://www.semic.sanyo.co.jp/index_e.htm
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