In fact, TiVo and Broadcom will show off their joint foray into 4K content distribution this week, September 12-16, at IBC 2014 (International Broadcasting Convention) in Amsterdam.
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In a nutshell, Broadcom will be lending its expertise to ensure TiVo’s upcoming set-top boxes will have the processing power necessary to seamlessly crank out the bandwidth-intensive 4K content, while still providing the staple functionality and ease-of-use that’s become synonymous with the TiVo brand.
To assist TiVo with 4K content delivery, both in linear form, such as the forthcoming 4K broadcasts from pay-TV services, and streamed from the Web, Broadcam is loading TiVo’s new boxes with its powerful flagship video decoder system-on-a-chip, the BCM7445. Broadcom’s chip, which the corporation refers to as “the world’s first Ultra High Definition Television video decoder solution on the market,” will provide the set-top boxes with the standard high-efficiency video codec (HEVC) compression, which allows for the highest quality 60 frame-per-second transmission, and 10-bit color standard.
Broadcom made a similar announcement yesterday when it revealed that it will be integrating its BCM7252 system-on-a-chip into the German telecommunications company Vodafone‘s upcoming set-top boxes, which are set to ship during the first half of 2015.
It’s still unclear when TiVo plans to begin shipping its 4K-ready set-top boxes, but the company appears to have readied its flagship 4K device for deployment as soon as multi-system operators like Comcast, and others get up to speed.
