Entopic makes Multiple Satellite TV Set-Top boxes a whole lot cheaper!
It is ‘Chips’ that today hold the ability of altering the way we live drastically with their amazing power packed technology in tiny packets of magic. It would have been hard to believe that something like this would indeed happen if you were told of the same in 1980’s and it would have sounded all the more ridiculous with a name like ‘Chips’. Okay, so I may have been a decade too late on the dig, but it still is as new as ever and more so considering that the new Chips launched by Entropic will alter your pleasure center (I’m talking about television, not your bedroom) radically.
It’s painful to get satellite TV service installed at your home because technicians have to spend a lot of time wiring multiple set-top boxes to a single dish antenna. Entropic Communications has a solution that eliminates that problem. Today, the San Diego, Calif., company is announcing today that DirecTV is adopting the Entropic chips. The company’s chip is called a “channel stack switch” and it will be built into a new DirecTV satellite dish. Earlier this year, DirecTV said it would include the Entropic chips in its newest set-top boxes. Now you don’t have to be shy about adding three or four DirecTV boxes to your home because the switch chip lets all of those boxes use the same wire back to the satellite dish on the roof.
Entropic can support up to 12 tuners on a single wire because the chips are made out of silicon germanium. Such chips are hard to design, but they’re capable of working out the complex signaling to let a lot of data to travel down the same pathway at the same time. DirecTV acknowledges the chips will save it a lot of money. Entropic is apparently not on a good business streak right now as it seems to be making more losses than gains but the new chip could change all that and could help you save money too. The success of it though will only be known in the months to come!
Via: Venturebeat
