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PCIe dual channel PC TV PCV530
General description
Say goodbye to complex manufacturing logistics with the PCV530 reference design. It has everything you need to make advanced, scalable multi-form factor PCIe PC TV cards, lowering the cost of bringing TV reception, DVR and time shift recording functionality to PCs.
Key features
- Complete dual stream architecture enables many user scenarios:
- watch-and-record
- watch/watch
- listen/record - Input flexibility
- ATSC and NTSC TV reception
- FM radio reception
- A/V capture from CE devices such as camcorders and VCRs - Integrated video and audio encoding supports DVR, time-shift, and archive features (with host PC)
- RC receiver and transmitter interfaces control TV and record functions
- Supported by the latest Windows operating systems
- Multi-level content protection
- Vibrant picture quality
- Integrated motion adaptive 3D comb filters and 3D noise reduction for both channels - Includes PCIe x1 reference card, drivers and full documentation
Background information
The PCV530's dual-stream architecture lets you create systems that offer digital video recording (DVR) and time shift recording, as well as normal TV viewing on a PC. It supports tuning, demodulation, analog TV video/stereo decoding, transport stream capture, digital video capture and digital encoding of two independent A/V channels simultaneously.
With the PCV530, various view/listen/record combinations are possible:
- view two analog or digital TV channels at the same time using Picture-in-Picture, split screen, and watch/search modes
- watch one TV channel and record a second channel or video source
- record two channels or video sources
- listen to FM radio and record a TV program or any video source
Other features include vertical blanking interval (VBI) extraction and remote control support for TV and recording functions. Multi-layer content protection includes certified Macrovision™ detection circuitry, CGMS-A extraction, and support for the Microsoft Protected Broadcast Driver Architecture (PBDA).
The design features tuners for ATSC, NTSC and FM radio reception and two ATSC channel decoders. At its heart lies our highly integrated PCI Express dual-channel, PC TV capture/encode IC, SAA7164. The SAA7164 demodulates and decodes two independent channels of broadcast TV video and stereo and encodes video and audio for recording applications. It also handles picture enhancements and high-quality scaling to prepare video for display.