Anchor Bay's shipments of ABT1010 and ABT1018 video processing chips reach one million
(Business News, 25 Jun 2007 )
Anchor Bay has announced that the total shipments for its video processing chips for image scaling applications have reached over one million units. Optimized for format conversion applications in DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray player/recorders, HDTV set-top boxes, AV receivers, and other digital media, the ABT1010 and ABT1018 have been widely deployed in numerous design wins. The success of these solutions has quickly established Anchor Bay's Video Reference Series (VRS) technologies as the reference in image quality for high-resolution displays.
Built on Anchor Bay's proprietary 10-bit Precision Video Scaling technology, the ABT1010 and ABT1018 are designed to scale an image horizontally and vertically independently to achieve an outstanding picture quality for today's high-resolution video displays.
The ABT1010 provides up-conversion from 480p/576p, while the ABT1018 provides up-conversion from 480p, 576p, 720p, and 1080i. Both chips output any resolution from VGA (640x480) to 1080p (1920x1080) without ringing or other artifacts.
Building on the success of the ABT1010 and ABT1018, Anchor Bay's next-generation chip will be the ABT2010, which will feature all of the processing power of Anchor Bay's VRS technologies. This includes Precision Deinterlacing, providing five-field motion adaptive and edge adaptive processing for an artifact-free viewing experience, noise reduction, and picture enhancement technologies.
The ABT2010 will also be Anchor Bay's first chip to feature PReP, a unique patent-pending technology to recover original interlace formats from 480p, 576p, and 1080p for deinterlacing again to remove artifacts commonly caused by poor deinterlacing that is integrated into source devices.
