LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications: LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry, which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors – a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder, an MPEG video decoder, and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders, which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation; the products, designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver, are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated.
