Today’s set-top box market is driven by exciting new capabilities such as 3D graphical user interfaces for enhanced navigation, personalized multi-screen services, and improved multimedia and Internet TV experiences. Also, new capabilities such as over-the-top (OTT) video services are transforming the set-top box market.
Service providers are competing fiercely to deliver these solutions at the highest quality level, the lowest cost and with the strongest security protection to win new and retain existing subscribers for their pay-TV services. At the same time, this market is also rapidly transitioning towards a truly Connected Home due to semiconductor solutions that provide consumers with anytime/anywhere access their entertainment and content throughout the home.
Trident is at the heart of this market as one of the top three providers of semiconductor solutions for the set-top box market. Due to the similarities between technologies for set-top boxes and digital televisions, Trident’s leadership position in both markets gives the company a significant competitive advantage. Trident’s set-top box platforms deliver a compelling and immersive multimedia experience for consumers while delivering key technical requirements such as a high level of security, low power requirements (or efficient power management), and feature rich capabilities that are critical to OEMs and service providers. With its product excellence combined with proven picture quality and digital TV expertise, Trident is a driving force in the definition and true emergence of the Connected Home.
Trident offers the major building blocks to develop next-generation set-top box solutions for interesting and entertaining TV programming, rich Internet applications, 3D games and web browsing. With the only 45nm broadcast set-top box chipset on the market, Trident enables best-in-class OpenGL2.0 3D graphics, superior picture quality, high-power efficiency,web-enabled services (using the ARM Cortex applications processor) and support for a broad range of security systems. Trident’s focus on open platforms facilitates the wide adoption of 3rd party applications, innovative services and new business models in consumer electronics and content delivery.