Fujitsu Chip Encodes/Decodes In Full HD

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Fujitsu has announced a H.264 chip capable of encoding and decoding 1920 x 1080 video in real time, a world's first.

The chip features 256MB of onboard FCRAM and ultra low 750mW power draw when encoding video. That means lickity quick, MPEG-2 quality processing with only a third, or half the required storage.
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moetop said:
"(60i/50i) video in real time"

Doesent i = Interlace? BLEH!
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The HDTV standard is typically defined as 720p@50/60 (there is 24,25 and 30 as well) or 1080i@50/60 ( which is what all your cable/satellite TV comes as.....this chip is targeted for DVR's.

Interlaced is not bad...what do you think the traditional DVD is? Taking a current DVR and replacing the current decode/encode chip with this would allow companies to increase storage by a factor of 4x w/o increasing the HDD size...talk about huge.
 
Trepidati0n said:
Interlaced is not bad...what do you think the traditional DVD is? Taking a current DVR and replacing the current decode/encode chip with this would allow companies to increase storage by a factor of 4x w/o increasing the HDD size...talk about huge.
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Yeah, the only problem is the market has abandoned the only native interlaced technology-- CRTs... Which means interlaced stuff only looks as good as the deinterlacing chip in the TV. :(
 
UrielDagda said:
Yeah, the only problem is the market has abandoned the only native interlaced technology-- CRTs... Which means interlaced stuff only looks as good as the deinterlacing chip in the TV. :(
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I think you are mostly right with your comment. The problem is that CRT's could pretty much handle any input resolution w/o having to modify the image to make it fit...digital display do have to this if the input isn't native.. This is part of the penalty which a great many people choose to ignore or are ignorant of when converting to digital. This is why people who are serious about digital displays have external scalers or HTPC's to do the conversions correctly so their image doesn't look poor.
 
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