Abstract
The digitization of data, voice, video, and communications is leading a consumer product convergence, and this convergence has given rise to the need for networked appliances. The ability to distribute data, voice, and video within the home has brought new excitement to the consumer industry. The Internet, combined with in-home networking and “smart,” connected appliances, has resulted in Generation D—the Digital Decade. The digital revolution is growing rapidly. Digital content has several quality advantages as well. It exhibits less noise as illustrated by the lack of background hiss in the audio content. It also enables superior image manipulation as seen in shadow enhancement, sharpness control, and color manipulations in medical imaging. Economically, digital data manipulation is much less expensive as it is able to leverage semiconductor economies of scale. It becomes better and more affordable every year. The digitization of consumer products has led not only to the improvement of existing products, but to the creation of whole new classes of products such as personal video recorders (PVR), digital modems, and MP3 players. Digital products are now synonymous with quality, accuracy, reliability, speed, power, and low cost. The book examines the several consumer devices that are emerging to populate homes. It previews the digital home of the future and describes the market and technology dynamics of appliances such as digital televisions (TVs), audio players, cellular phones, DVD players, PCs, digital cameras, web terminals, screen phones, and eBooks. This book also provides information, including block diagrams, on designing digital consumer devices. It explains how solutions based on programmable logic can provid1e key advantages to the consumer in flexibility, performance, power, and cost.
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