MaxLinear Tuners Used in OMVC Showcase Units

By Doug Lung
published


MaxLinear tuners are in the Hauppauge tuner boards installed in the 200 Dell Inspirion Mini 10 netbooks being used in the Open Mobile Video Coalition's Mobile DTV Consumer Showcase in Washington DC.

The MaxLinear MxL111SF is a single chip-digital terrestrial receiver that includes an ATSC-M/M-compliant silicon tuner and a USB interface. The tuner is used in a number of products, including "USB stick" DTV receiver from Hauppauge.

MaxLinear's press release includes a comment from Jim Clardy, mobile TV technology strategist at Dell.

"Consumers are expected to rapidly adjust to being able to view digital broadcast TV anywhere, any time on just about any device, an activity made possible by ATSC-M/H technology," Clardy said. "Dell has been an ardent supporter of ATSC-M/H technology and considers it a key element of the Dell product strategy to merge personal technology with digital TV entertainment."

Hauppauge Digital VP of Technology John Casey also commented.

"Hauppauge is pleased to collaborate with MaxLinear and Dell to develop new, innovative mobile TV products based on the ATSC-M/H standard," Casey said. "The widespread availability of high-quality free-to-air DTV programming combined with new mobile consumer devices based on the ATSC-M/H standard will give consumers the freedom to watch and record their favorite TV shows and news channels whether they're on the road or on the go."

Doug Lung
Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack.
A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.