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Texas Instruments demos first 720p playback from a mobile phone
by Richard Lawler posted Feb 13th 2007 at 12:39PM
Texas Instruments demonstrated its first processor to enable high definition (720p) playback on mobile phones yesterday at 3GSM World Congress. The OMAP3430, first announced last year, is the first in TI's series of OMAP 3 processors and also first to include support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard for 3D acceleration. The 3430 gets the muscle to move your HD files and 3D gaming from its embedded ARM Cortex-A8 processor, but from the specs it seems that the video portion is only currently supporting up to 1024 x 768 (XGA) output via composite or S-video connections. Still, with this power available, sometime in the future your common cellphone will be playing back HD on the go or outputting video to a big screen HDTV. We previously expected to see handsets based on the technology this year, but while TI is shipping samples of the processors now, don't expect your HD-capable cell to hit stores until early 2008.TI pushing to get DLP in your cellphone, local cinema
by Darren Murph posted Jan 10th 2007 at 5:40PM
It's not terribly uncommon to see a manufacturer try to push a product (or platform) into every crevice of your life, and it seems that Texas Instruments is diverting quite sharply from its calculatorish ways of old and making an aggressive push to get that DLP logo slapped on everything you own. While we've seen (literally) the diminutive Microvision display do its thang here at CES, TI is hoping to steal that thunder away by talking up its forthcoming palm-sized DLP projectors. The "fully featured" Pocket Projectors, which are co-developed by OMAP, would weigh "less than one pound," use the .55 DLP chip, and could purportedly connect to handsets or PDAs to beam up that big(ger) screen imagery for a crowd to see. Unfortunately for TI, these devices are not (at least initially) supposed to be integrated units, which could easily get overlooked if those built-in alternatives can muster acceptable quality. Additionally, TI is hoping to get that DLP logo stamped on your brain even when you visit the cinema, as the company now has its technology in 3,000 theaters worldwide and is frequently throwing logo-clad splash screens onto the canvas during pre-show advertisements. So if you wonder why you're strangely drawn to the DLP sets during your next HDTV shopping trip, trust us, it's not the mirrors, it's the marketing.[Via AboutProjectors]
Breaking News - TI's OMAP 3430 processor adds HD to phones
by Kevin C. Tofel posted Feb 14th 2006 at 1:53PM
Ok, so we thought the iPod would let us store and
carry HD content from HDTV to HDTV. We were close based on Texas Instrument's newest OMAP3430 processor for
cellular phones. The new OMAP3430 samples are due out in mid-year, but not for use in devices until 2007 is the likely
story. The processor provides HD playback capability in a mobile phone; theoretically you could download some HD
content via a 3G data link and then connect your phone to a high-def monitor for playback. The OMAP3430 will support
MPEG-4, WMV-9, H.264 and RealVideo 10 when we see it next year. Sounds like we'll have a new poll question next year: Will your next phone be 720p or 1080i?
