DiBcom Intros Mobile TV Chips

PARIS -- DiBcom, a fabless semiconductor company and undisputed world leader for Mobile TV solutions announced today two new additions to its line-up of DVB-H and DVB-T solutions. The DIB908x-H was designed to offer the most cost-effective DVB-H only solution to mobile phone manufacturers that want to increase their volumes by leveraging the momentum of DVB-H: the widely adopted Mobile TV standard in most regions of the world. At the same time, DiBcom’s DIB1908x-H, a multi-standard (DVB-T, DVB-H, DAB and T-DMB), multi-band (VHF, UHF and L-Band), and pin-compatible component will offer manufacturers the possibility of reusing the same phone base design to produce multi-standard Mobile TV phones for countries that support other standards in addition to DVB-H.

The DIB908x-H is a highly integrated DVB-H only component based on DiBcom´s ‘proven performance’ and fully compliant receiver technology, which has become the de-facto market reference for performance and robustness, thus reducing significantly infrastructure costs for carriers while improving user experience and adoption of Mobile TV. The DIB908x-H integrates a demodulator, a second generation multi-band RF tuner, an LNA and all filters in half the size of its predecessor.

"By 2011, we expect to see DVB-H operating in over 50 countries. DVB-H will be the technology of choice among more than 50% of all mobile TV subscribers globally. By 2011 we will see around 228 million mobile TV enabled handsets in the field, that makes DVB-H at least a 115 million device opportunity, over 5 years," said Peter White, Principal Analyst at Faultline Service at Rethink Research.

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