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ViXS XCode® products are designed to provide features and functions to enhance DTV products, transforming them from static display into fully interactive media center products for the home.  ViXS XCode® products also provide advanced video processing to DTV manufacturers to allow them to implement features to allow consumers to have seamless control over their entertainment content.  DTV manufacturers have also have taken advantage of the ViXS Xtensiv Software suite to implement product enhancing features such as DLNA support, PVR Stacks, BD Authoring and Mobile device support. 

Below are some examples how leading DTV manufacturers have used a ViXS XCode® product to enhance their product line.
CASE STUDIES

Hitachi Wooo UT800 Series, Plasma03 Series and LCD03 Series

Hitachi has fifteen new "UT800 Series", "Plasma03 Series" and "LCD03 Series" HDTVs with built-in Hard Disk Drives. The new line is available from end of April. This year, Hitachi is taking HDTVs to a whole new level.

Some of the new features added to the new line-up include:
    • The world's first 8X Extend Recording with "XCodeHD" engine allows
      approximately 200 hours of Full HD recording to the built-in 250GB Hard Disk
      Drive
    • IPTV (acTVila VOD/ Web browsing for Yahoo! JAPAN portal)
    • Best picture setting through an ambient sensor
    • DLNA capability
    • Lowest energy consumption by reducing the electrical energy of the panel and
      built-in Hard Disk Drive

ViXS has been in 2 generations of Hitachi Wooo DTV Recorder/PVR products with built-in HDD’s. ViXS XCode® provides the following functions in this new line of DTV Recorder/PVR product:
    • Full Linux Operating System (OS) with associated applications
    • PVR Stack with Recording, Time Shifting and Full Trick modes
    • Faster than Real-time HD MPEG2 to HD AVC Transcoding upto 8X
      compression
    • Faster than Real-time HD AVC to HD AVC Transcoding
    • AVC & MPEG2 HD Decoding and Display
    • MPEG2 Encoding
    • Marlin IPTV with Conditional Access (CA) / Digital Rights Management (DRM)
    • SAFIA Content Protection (CP)
    • DTCP/IP protection and DLNA support
    • Transcryption for conversion between CA’s, DRM’s and CP‘s
    • Full BCAS/ISDB-T support

Sharp Aquos DX LCD TV Series with built-in BD Recorder

This second edition of the DX Series brings more advanced functions such as even better images and ease-of-use. The recording function is improved with the 7X extended HD video recording (7X mode), which allows extended recording time while retaining the same exact full-HD quality as the original high-definition broadcast.
Image quality has also been taken to a new level with the High-Picture-Quality Master Engine, as well as Clear Double Speed function for crisp, high-speed images. In addition, Image Select automatically sets the image and sound to match room brightness and type of TV and video program or scene. With the New Motion Guide, users can be watching TV while selecting another program on TV or the Internet, or a program recorded on Blu-ray Disc. Users now get even more of the advanced operation only possible with these all-in-one AQUOS models.

The ViXS XCode processor has been in 2 generations of the Aquos DX series of DTVs. The ViXS XCode® media processor provides the following features in the Aquos DX series:

    • PVR Stack with Recording, Time Shifting and Full Trick modes
    • Faster than Real-time HD MPEG2 to HD AVC Transcoding upto 7X
      compression
    • Faster than Real-time HD AVC to HD AVC Transcoding
    • MPEG2 Encoding
    • BCAS/ISDB-T support