Terrestrial digital tuner that can be attached to analog TV at ultra-low price cuts below 5000 yen, released on September 19

According to the aeon that develops Jusco and Satie, it seems to sell terrestrial digital tuners that can be attached to analog TV at 491 yen including tax from Sep. 19 (Sat) at 481 shops nationwide. It is equipped with 8 day's electronic program guide, initial setting by easy operation, emergency warning broadcasting support, no operation auto power off function, and seems to be properly worth the price.

Already in July 2008NEC realizes a cheap terrestrial digital tuner with 5000 yenSince it was developing a system LSI for a simple tuner that is useful for this, it was a matter of time, but at the last the real thing has come to appear.

Details are as below.

2009/09/05 22:07 Adds screenshots of detailed specifications and electronic program guide
[PDF file]Terrestrial digital tuner for analog TV is 4,980 yen! [AEON Co., Ltd.]

Company information - News - Notice of low-priced terrestrial digital tuner release for ion release. | PIXELA CORPORATION

This is a new digital terrestrial tuner made by PIXELA Corporation "PRD - BT 102 - PA 1" which will be released from AE this time.



·Product Specifications
Product name: PRODIA (Prodeia) Terrestrial digital tuner
Model number: PRD-BT102-PA1
Release date: September 19, 2009
External dimensions: W 117 mm × D 91.3 mm × H 38 mm (excluding protruding parts)
Weight: Approximately 140 g (body only)
Allowable operating environment: Temperature: 0 to 40 ° C
Humidity: 20 to 80% RH (no condensation)
Power supply voltage: Body = DC 5 V ACattaptor = AC 100 V 50/60 Hz
Power consumption: 3.0 W
Standby power: 1.5 W or less
Broadcasting system: Terrestrial digital broadcasting system (Japan)
Tuner: Terrestrial digital tuner × 1
Receiving channel: Terrestrial wave (UHF): 13 ~ 62 ch
Terrestrial wave (VHF): 1 to 12 ch (CATV pass through compatible)
CATV: 13 ch to 63 ch (CATV passthrough compatible)
Input antenna terminal: F type connector Input impedance 75 Ω
Output RCA terminal (composite video / analog audio L / R)
Accessories: main unit, AC adapter, B-CAS card, remote control, 2 AAA batteries, AV cable, instruction manual
Remarks: Data broadcasting and interactive service are not supported

This terrestrial digital tuner is designed to eliminate the receiving function of BS broadcasting and CS broadcasting for the received waves of digital broadcasting, limiting it to one terrestrial wave, narrowing down the channel operation portion of the main body, It is realized by doing.

In addition, as a circuit necessary for reception, a silicon tuner using a tuner circuit made up of semiconductor chips is adopted and it is downsized. Furthermore, we reduced the distribution cost by compactification of the main package (adopting the blister pack) and realized the low price by exploiting the scale merit of the ion deployed nationwide.

The silicon tuner is lower in cost, power saving and miniaturization than conventional tuners that use comparatively large parts such as coils, etc. According to Pixela, it is domestic production, so " While realizing it, I have not compromised on quality. "

This is the electronic program guide. It is an electronic program guide for 8 days, it is possible to see program listings for up to 5 stations, 4 hours at the same time, and also supports scaling of characters. It also has a counterprogram function and it is possible to see the program list being broadcasted on other channels in the same time zone.



About the non-operation automatic power off function, it seems that it can automatically switch to the standby state when there is no operation for about 3 hours.

The household penetration rate of 'digital broadcast receiver' combined with terrestrial digital broadcasting compatible TV as of March 2009 and digital terrestrial tuner for analog TV is 60.7% nationwide average, but perhaps this new product has penetration rate I might push it further.