Trident and Vestel Show off DTV and LCD Designs In Europe

Trident Microsystems and Vestel, a European TV OEM company, just told the world that they will be showcasing Vestel's first Progressive Digital TV and LCD TV designs based on Trident's DPTV family at the IFA 2001 trade show in Berlin August 25th through September 2nd. Trident's DPTV consists of a television decoder with a programmable 5 Tap Adaptive Digital Comb Filter that supports NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats. Trident says it gives you 14 Dynamic Picture Enhancements 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, VBI, and Closed Captioning. The video stream can be refreshed in either Interlaced or Progressive modes. DPTV comes in three configurations and you can currently only find out about pricing by contacting Trident. The release I saw gives no mention of what Vestel adds to the equation, so one has to figure they must be producing the displays that are used as prototypes in the display (or, if you prefer, "showcase of displays").