Mediatek has announced the availability of its new MediaTek MT5597 SoC, an Ultra HD TV SoC supporting Dolby Vision and Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG).
The company said that “several” top TV manufacturers have selected the MT5597 to power their new generation of TV devices. Consumers can expect MT5597-powered Android and Linux TV devices to be commercially available by the end of Q2 this year.
Equipped for both the Android TV 7.0 system and Linux OS, MediaTek MT5597 features 64-bit Arm Cortex processors and the high-performance Arm Mali-450 GPU, designed to maximize reuse of available resources during the graphics operation, thereby minimizing power and bandwidth requirements. The chipset also supports Google VP9 and HEVC codecs designed for 4K content streaming with 10bit color depth at 60fps.
To provide manufacturers with a single global solution that is both cost effective and offers the latest display capabilities, MT5597 offers worldwide demodulation technology support for ATSC, DVB-T/S/C/T2/S2, DVB-C, DTMB and ISDB-T demodulation functions. The technology reserves transport stream inputs for external demodulators for other countries or areas. MT5597 makes it possible for TV makers to port the same UI to worldwide TV models easily.
Significant cost savings are possible, Mediatek said, by only having to develop one worldwide platform and the flexibility to choose from a wide variety of panel options and still preserve the highest level of picture quality.
The MT5597 also has advanced Ultra HD picture quality improvement technologies known as MiraVision. These features include:
- Motion judder is eliminated with MediaTek’s 4K Motion Estimation/Motion Cancellation (MEMC) technology support.
- Support for single and dual layer mainstream HDR specs including Dolby Vision HDR, HDR10, and BBC HLG, which allows users to enjoy HDR content from any video source (OTT and physical media).
- Ultra Resolution, which enhances details without adding artefacts. MT5597 is equipped with what the firm claims is the highest fidelity scaler for “unmatched” signal preservation and with a “sophisticated” content classifier for restoring every detail.
MediaTek claims to have been the first to develop a 4K Ultra HD TV SoC, for Android 5.0 and announced the collaboration with Google and Sony to introduce the first smart TV running on Android Lollipop back at CES 2015.
