MicroTune wills to disrupt TV signals

The idea behind the company's the 'ClearTune Challenge' is simple. All you do is sneak up with a GSM 900 MHz handset and see the picture on other TV phones disappear.

The challenge when designing a handset capable of receiving TV signals for mobile phones conforming to the DVB-H standard is interference. The problem is that the handset's power amplifier is normally located only millimetres away from the television tuner chip.

MicroTune, however, reckons its ClearTune technology has beaten the problem resulting in clear, stable and sharp pictures on the handset's screen.

The company isn't alone in this belief because it has just announced that its product will feature inside the next generation of DVB-H compatible handsets from LG which will be supplied to a major European operator.

Microtune's mobile TV technology is available to manufacturers in standard-packaged chip form or as wafer-level chip-scale packages for integration into system-in-packages.

While MicroTune is publicly offering the 'Challenge' on its own stand at 3GSM Barcelona, it's obvious that attendees are being encouraged to try the trick elsewhere.

The girl in the pic demonstrates what will happen to handsets which fail the challenge. µ

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