Video decoders for consumer & surveillance

Looking for innovative video decoding products that deliver outstanding picture quality? Then look no further. Whatever the demands of you system and application, you’ll find the ideal device in our extensive video decoder offering.

Take our new dual-channel TV decoder and IF demodulator SAA7162, for example. It’s the industry's first integrated PCI Express™ dual global video and stereo decoder for digital home PC desktops and notebooks.

This highly integrated device offers a low BOM solution for adding TV functionality to computing and consumer products. It delivers excellent picture quality and advanced video features including low–noise 10–bit ADCs. A key feature of next–generation PC motherboards and connected consumer products, the PCI Express architecture ensures plenty of bandwidth for multi–channel designs and features such as independent record/view and picture–in–picture.

For quick evaluation and rapid system development, you can also get the SAA7162 as part of one of our comprehensive reference designs.

SAA7162 key features

• Dual-channel TV decoder and IF demodulator
• Support 4xTS in parallel
• Fully automatic detection and decoding of analog TV video (PAL, NTSC, SECAM) and broadcast stereo formats (A2/Dual–FM, NICAM, BTSC with dbx™, SAP, and EIAJ)
• Support worldwide analog TV standards: M/N, B/G/H, D/K, I, L/L’
• Enhanced PAL/NTSC comb filtering and audio feature processing
• Certified three-level Macrovision® detection circuitry
• Versatile VBI–data slicer captures common text and data services
• Superior subpixel–accurate horizontal and vertical scaling

SAA7162 key benefits

• Watch one channel while recording a second
• Seamless migration to high-performance PCI Express interface
• Exceptional picture quality
• Reduced time-to-market through comprehensive reference designs
• No SAW filter necessary with NXP silicon tuner TDA8275A series
• Low BOM

SAA7162 key applications

• PCI Express PC TV cards

Information resources

• PCIe dual-channel TV decoder and IF demodulator (SAA7162)

Related applications

Dual analog PC TV reference design
Dual hybrid DVB-T PC TV reference design

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