CrestaTech’s PCTV Receiver Supports all Digital and Analog Formats

CrestaTech has designed CrestaTV, a Universal Broadband Receiver, the only true universal PCTV receiver that supports every analog and digital TV broadcast formats in the world including PAL, ASTC, Cable QAM, NTSC, and DVBT.

This technology has repartitioned the television receiver into software and hardware blocks, to take complete benefit from the parallel processing power of state-of-the-art multi-core processors. CrestaTech has recently bagged the Mobile TV Reception Technology Innovation of the Year award of the Frost & Sullivan.

By virtue of its current capability to operate on every major computing platform, the CrestaTV represents enhancement for PCTV performance, flexibility, simplicity, and price. CrestaTV is a total PCTV receiver that has an A/V decoder, a global tuner, and demodulator and helps the OEMs to implement CrestaTV in the PCI express cards for desktops and PCI mini-express cards or USB TV modules for laptops. The PCI express and USB mini-card modules are being dispatched to major OEMs for sampling.

CrestaWare software applications are incorporated in the programmable broadband solution for offering quick channel scanning, radio, and TV tower geo-location enhanced reception, and more. CrestaTech also offers an open platform to develop user-generated content and social media programs. This will result in the provision of utility functionalities for global travelers and consumers including region-free live TV, GPS, and radio reception with local channel guides through user laptops, and a many new integrated applications.

Now the power of the universal TV receiver of CrestaTech can be plugged in all computing platforms. It was revealed during the recent programmable broadband company held at Computex Taiwan that updated software and hardware and software will be able to deliver live, crisp television to every AMD and NVIDIA processor based notebook PC.

George Haber, CEO and President at CrestaTech, informed that the CrestaTV broadband receiver technology can adapt to every environment. He explained that the software and the programmable RF IC combination can function on all OEM platforms and can operate in any country and receive any broadcast signal. He added that the unparalleled flexibility renders CrestaTV the best cost-effective PCTV receiver in the industry, thereby reducing system expenses by half in comparison to competitive silicon solutions.