Tech News: NEC comes up with new upconverting 1080p chip for TVs
May 28, 2009 by Derek
Technology is always moving forward, and that includes the HDTV arena. Improvements on older tech are happening all the time. Take NEC: they’ve developed the µPD9280GM chip designed which can expand and upconvert older pics to 1920×1080 resolution with significantly less blurring, which may impact how upconverting is handled down the road.
Beating the old uPD9245GJ chipset by running at 150Mhz clock speed instead of the previous 108Mhz speed (so it processes images much more quickly, improving action scene processing) and expanding color quality from simple 24-bit to 30-bitcolor (almost at the edge of human color range), it also promises to do its super-res sorcery based on just one frame of picture data instead of needing multiple frames and more addon memory, which will make it faster, more efficient and cheaper to produce.
The chip will start being made in July, and should open the door for more devices with lower-cost, higher quality image upconversion.
