New Products Developers' Products Texas Instruments has announced two new 1394 link layer and integrated physical layer devices for digitally interfacing advanced video applications. The ICs support the latest requirements from the Digital Transport Licensing Authority (DTLA), including localization for DTCP-encrypted premium content. The TSB43EC42 and the TSB43EA42 provide security and Quality of Service (QoS) for home networking in set top boxes, digital televisions, and Blu-ray recorders. Extending TI's 1394 CE family, the TSB43EC42 and TSB43EA42 enable tru2way set top boxes and digital televisions to record in high definition. The TSB43EC42 adds AES-128 encryption to the transport stream interface, which provides very robust protection by keeping content encrypted at all times. This eliminates the need for additional physical content protection on the PCB and can simplify board layout. Both the TSB43EC42 and TSB43EA42 two-port PHYs operate at 100 Mbps, 200 Mbps or 400 Mbps and are fully compliant with the IEEE 1394-1995 and IEEE 1394a-2000. www.ti.com 1394 Featured in New Computers from Industry Leaders
The 1394a-equipped Lenovo ThinkPad W700 is a 17-inch workstation featuring a full size keyboard with a standard numeric keypad, Touch Point, Track Pad, and an innovation called Wacom Digitizer and Pen. Like the Dell and Gateway models, it includes DisplayPort, VGA, S/PDIF, BluRay/DVD player, and a 7-in-1 multi-media card reader, among other features. For connectivity purposes, WLAN 802.11n, Bluetooth, and Ultra Wideband WiMAX are all available. The 17-inch display includes WUXGA or WXGA resolution, and comes loaded with an integrated camera. Prices start at $2,499. For more information: http://shop.lenovo.com/ca/en/notebooks/thinkpad/r-series Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market, introduced its 1394-equipped Aspire X3200 desktop PC and P244W 24-inch widescreen LCD display. Feature-rich, stylish and space saving, the new PC is outfitted with AMD Phenom X3 processing power, Blu-ray Disc technology, NVIDIA GeForce graphics and Dolby Home Theater sound. The X3200 is a multimedia powerhouse. The Acer P244W display is simple to use and brilliantly showcases high-definition video, games and multimedia with 1080p HD support and 1920x1080 resolution. Offering 64-bit Windows, a Blu-ray drive and significant memory, the AspireX3200 has a starting price of $700. www.acer.com Consumer Electronics
Machine Vision Motherboards BIOSTAR Microtech introduced its latest TPower X58 1394-equipped motherboard based on Intel’s X58 chipset, providing support for Intel's latest Core i7 series, which features Hyper threading technology and QuickPath Interconnect Technology, while providing a great advantage through the point-to-point architecture. The new TPower X58 offers a setting of 6.4GT/s for QPI along with flexible memory support options including up to 1600MHz native DDR3-1866MHz memory support. The new motherboard is based on the previous TPower Series Tech top features. Cables, Connectors, and Cards Pyro AV is now shipping its Turbo 1394b PCI and Turbo 1394b PCIe controller cards with Unibrain ubCore™ drivers for Windows. Including ubCore™ with their line of 1394b (FireWire 800) products, Pyro AV provides a complete solution out-of-the-box, allowing end users to take full advantage of 1394b’s 800 Mbps transfer speed. ubCore™ unlocks the potential of FireWire for Windows users and with SBP2 disk, IIDC FireWire cameras support and FireNet 1394 networking support. ubCore™ will allow Pyro AV to offer a powerful tool to transfer data at speeds of 100 MBytes per second. Digitally signed, ubCore™ supports Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server and Vista with full support for 64 bit Windows operating systems (AMD64 and Intel EM64t CPUs). www.pyroAV.com
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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Fujitsu Leads Drive for 1394 at Convergence 2008 VISION 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany Highlights New 1394b Cameras AES Convention in San Francisco Features New 1394-Equipped Audio Products The Best Future Proof Solution to a Vehicle Network Design – Using the 1394 Automotive Standard Coax Cabling for 1394 Vehicle Networks Offer Highest Data Speeds, Lowest Cost Building the New VersaPHY Ready for the In-Vehicle Network Visit the 1394 Trade Association Website
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Dell in November introduced the 1394a-equipped Latitude E4300 notebook, with blue and red color options in addition to standard black. There is a backlit keyboard, a mouse and trackpad, which features optional scrolling. The trackpad features can be customized from a central interface. The 13.3-inch display on the E4300 has a 1,280 x 800 native resolution. At the base of the display is an ambient light sensor for conserving battery life. Pricing starts at $2,299. More details at 
Designed as a premium quality workhorse HD cinematography camcorder, the VariCam 2700 is for content creation applications, from sports and films to music videos and television commercials. Equipped with three full 1-megapixel 2/3-inch native HD CCDs, the VariCam 2700 records pristine, independent-frame 1080 and 720 images using advanced AVC-Intra 100 and AVC-Intra 50 compression, now supported by the industry's leading nonlinear editing systems. AVC-Intra 100 provides full-raster, 10-bit master video quality for high-level shooting, while AVC-Intra 50 Mbps delivers robust DVCPRO HD quality at half the bit rate of the current compression. The camera also records in the widely supported DVCPRO HD format.
Point Grey Research Inc. announced the addition of the LDR (Long Distance Repeater) to its FirePRO family of professional IEEE 1394b components. The FirePRO LDR is a compact and cost effective solution for applications that require multiple IEEE 1394 devices to be extended beyond the standard 4.5m cable length. Using a Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) physical layer to transport FireWire data using GigE signaling, the FirePRO LDR can transmit and receive IEEE 1394b 800 Mb/s data in real-time over 100 meters of standard Category 5e (Cat5e) cable. This allows users to construct a dependable, high-speed FireWire-based network of multiple cameras.