DVD processor cuts LG's combo costs

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jan 23, 2004

LG Electronics has selected the LSI Logic DiMeNsion (DMN-8650) processor for its cutting-edge hard disk drive combination DVD recorder products.

LG Electronics has selected the LSI Logic DiMeNsion (DMN-8650) processor for its cutting-edge hard disk drive (HDD) combination DVD recorder products.

Based on the LSI Logic DoMiNo architecture, the DMN-8650 is the first single-chip HDD/DVD recorder system processor that reduces cost, design complexity and time to market through its high level of system integration, and delivers a rich feature set including the industry's highest-quality video.

"The ability to record near-broadcast quality TV, compile personal movie libraries or archive, preserve and catalogue family videos is appealing to consumers", said DJ Choi, Vice President of LG Electronics.

"The flexibility and high integration of the LSI Logic DMN-8650 enabled us to lower our total bill of materials and helped us establish a combination DVD/HDD recorder in the marketplace quickly at the right price".

Integrating the core digital processing of a dual-drive recorder system, the LSI Logic DMN-8650 enables the concurrent recording and playback on both HDD and DVD.

With this capability, consumers can: record their favourite TV programmes to the HDD while viewing a DVD; time-shift live broadcasts while transferring, uninterrupted, another programme to a DVD disk; and record from the HDD to a DVD disk, optimising speed, video quality and storage space.

Using the DMN-8650, LG Electronics can give consumers a new level of flexibility to record and store more than TV programmes - photos, audio files, and content from DV camcorders can now be archived by one system.

"LG Electronics is known for its innovative digital products, and we're pleased that they have selected the LSI Logic DMN-8650 as the basis for their newest HDD DVD recorder model", said Umesh Padval, Senior Vice President and General Manager of LSI Logic's Broadband Entertainment Division.

"Together, we are rapidly bringing the benefits of recordable DVD technology to consumers in a feature-rich, easy-to-use format".

The DMN-8650 integrates a second-generation DV codec, which enables faster-than-real-time DV to MPEG transcoding and LSI Logic's Direct Digital Dub technology.

Direct Digital Dub simplifies the transfer of personal digital content from a camcorder to DVD over FireWire, with one-touch control via a single remote.

Additional advantages of the DMN-8650 include LSI Logic's proprietary pre- and post-processing technologies, TrueView Pro and TrueScan Pro.

These motion compensation-based technologies provide advanced progressive scan output and impressive noise handling on analogue inputs.