HDTV/EDTV Monitors Will use Trident's DPTV Chip

Trident Microsystems today announced that Sampo , a Digital TV export company based in Taiwan, will be using Trident's DPTV in its new series of HDTV/EDTV monitors. Trident's DPTV consists of a television decoder with a programmable 5-Tap Adaptive Digital Comb Filter which supports NTSC, PAL and SECAM formats. There are 14 Dynamic Picture Enhancements available for fine-tuning video display quality. The DPTV chip enables an SDTV to display picture-in-picture, picture-out-picture, a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio, plus VBI and closed captioning. The video stream can be refreshed in either Interlace or Progressive mode. Trident's new DPTV comes in three configurations: DPTV-DX, DPTV-HX and DPTV-IX. The DPTV-DX is priced at $40, DPTV-HX is priced at $30, and DPTV-IX at $25 in 10K quantities.