Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc has chosen Milpitas, California-based C-Cube Microsystems Inc to supply the very-large-scale integrated circuits for the RCA Digital Satellite System that will receive the first high-power direct broadcast satellite television service in the US beginning next year. Compression Labs Inc, San Jose was picked last year to develop and make the encoding system for the direct broadcast satellite system. The system will enable viewers across the US to receive over 100 channels of entertainment and informational programming from Hughes Communications Inc’s DirecTv subsidiary. The C-Cube chips implement the Motion Picture Experts Group algorithm for compression and decompression of digital video data.
