The digital media business unit of Trident Microsystems has announced that Sony's newest 13" [ALV-13F1] and 15" [ALV-15F1] Aiwa LCD TVs aimed at the home entertainment market will employ Trident's DPTV video processor.

Trident's DPTV MV integrates an advanced digital comb video decoder for NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats. With film-mode recovery, DPTV MV can accurately detect the frame rates of incoming video sources, and then correctly restore the video source to the original film mode sequences in play back. The motion adaptive de-interlacing and edge-smoothing feature of the DPTV MV further refines the video display quality. There are 14 dynamic picture enhancements available for fine-tuning video display quality. The DPTV MV chip enables a SDTV signal to display in Picture-In-Picture mode, Picture-Out-Picture mode, and 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio modes.

An official release informs that DPTV MV supports non-linear scaling in panorama mode to ensure the most natural picture aspect ratio for the viewers. DPTV MV's integrated digital comb video decoder has a built-in VBI circuit for closed captioning and V-chip for parental control that is EIA 608 compliant. Furthermore, DPTV MV's graphic-based on-screen display provides the most user-friendly and graphic-oriented TV menu control interface. The video stream can be refreshed in either the Interlace or the Progressive mode.

California headquartered Trident Microsystems designs, develops and markets digital media for the masses in the form of graphics controllers and multimedia integrated circuits for both desktop and portable computing applications and digital processing ICs for TVs and TV monitors.