I am sure you have always wanted your FlexiTV multi-standard PC TV receiver to have ISDB-T OneSeg support added to it. Well, Mirics Semiconductor, aware of the awesome demand for such an interesting technology, heard your plea and added just that, at the same time striking agreements with Quincy digital of Korea and Skycast of Brazil... some of the few places where OneSeg (addition to DVB-T, DAB, T-DMB and FM standards) really means something.

Let us see what Chris Cytera, Director of Marketing at Mirics, had to comment, shall we? “We are delighted to be working with both Skycast and Quincy Digital as lead customers for our exciting new netbook-centric technology. These companies are innovators with proven track records, and as such are well placed to satisfy the customer base that they know so well.”

Whether you own a netbook computer, ultra-thin notebook, nettop or whatever other laptop-like concoction, if you live in Japan, Brazil or other ISDB-T territories, you'll not only enjoy TV on the move but will also benefit from a device that has an upgradeable software platform allowing you to receive TV in other geographic areas as well.

Y. Won, CEO of Quincy Digital, stated that “We are excited to be working with Mirics to deliver a multimode PC TV product supporting OneSeg and other TV standards. It gives our company an opportunity to offer an innovative consumer product to the very large and gadget-hungry Japanese market, in addition to other important geographies.”

I have a feeling you need to know what ISDB is, so I will let you in on a secret known by a few. The Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting standard is a Japanese digital TV and digital radio standard also used in the Philippines, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and other countries. It uses MPEG-2 video and audio compression but also allows for other video compression methods such as JPEG and MPEG-4 to be used.


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