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News Release from: Microtune | Subject: Mobile MicroTuner MT2260
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 May 2006
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LG Electronics is using Microtune's ultra-low-power Mobile MicroTuner chip to enable high-performance mobile television on its LG-U900 DVB-H mobile phone.
LG Electronics is using Microtune's ultra-low-power Mobile MicroTuner chip to enable high-performance mobile television on its LG-U900 DVB-H mobile phone LG Electronics, South Korea's second-largest electronics manufacturer, plans to supply the phone to Italian mobile telecommunications service provider, Hutchison 3 Italia
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As a supplier that specialises in tuners deployed today across leading stand-alone and portable devices, we understand the unique challenges of delivering a quality TV picture in a mobile environment", said James A Fontaine, President and CEO of Microtune.
"We are pleased to be working with and supporting LG as it brings the first commercial DVB-H mobile phones to market".
"To compete in the European market, home to worldwide European mobile phone manufacturers, we developed our DVB-H mobile phone to deliver superior quality and reliability", said Dr Skott Ahn, Executive Vice President, LG Electronics.
"The TV tuner is a key electronics component in ensuring excellent TV performance".
"We are very pleased to be the world's first UMTS (WCDMA) DVB-H phone manufacturer deploying Microtune's market-proven RF technology".
In the LG-U900 mobile phone, LG deploys Microtune's Mobile MicroTuner MT2260 chip, a miniature DVB-H digital TV tuner engineered to deliver robust performance in a very low-power mobile environment.
Designed with a patent-pending and proprietary architecture and Microtune's unique ClearTune filtering technology, the Mobile MicroTuner MT2260 features higher integration than other leading DVB-H tuner solutions on the market by not requiring bulky and costly external components, such as a low-noise amplifier and transformer.
"We pride ourselves on being the performance leader in silicon TV tuner technology", added Fontaine.
"To ensure true quality of reception for DVB-H devices, we designed our Mobile MicroTuner to exceed the MBRAI performance specification".
"With our vast experience developing tuners that detect very small signals and simultaneously manage fading conditions, 0dB echos and large adjacent channels, we believe that the MBRAI specification is, at best, a bare minimum requirement for acceptable DVB-H TV reception".
"As with our recently introduced three-in-one MT2131 digital TV tuner, we understand the importance of driving performance beyond the specifications to deliver a superior user experience in real-world environments".
"Performance beyond the MBRAI specification helps to ensure the reception of continuous TV services under marginal reception conditions, while providing superior manufacturing yield to handset makers".
Microtune recently announced that its Mobile MicroTuner technology will be available both as tuner chips and as a wafer-level chip-scale package.
This chip-scale packaged tuner allows for cost-effective integration of the Mobile MicroTuner with a demodulator, filter or other componentry in a system-in-package (SiP), a solution that enables greater miniaturisation in the next generations of mobile TV products.
The Mobile and Portable DVB-T Radio Access Interface Specification (MBRAI) is the DVB-H radio specification defined by the DVB Project, and it identifies the minimum performance condition within which the radio must operate to ensure conformance to the DVB-H standard.
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