CX23881

The CX23881 is a 100% pin-compatible and softwarecompatible subset of the CX23880. It is particularly suited to the European marketplace and therefore does not support BTSC-dBX and EIAJ audio as broadcast in the U.S. and Japan. In addition, the ViP host port is not supported on the CX23881 as there is no requirement for supporting high-level MPEG-2 decoding for digital television applications. Main Level MPEG-2 decoding for DVB broadcast applications is supported via a dedicated MPEG port for streaming of compressed data streams to the host for softwarebased decompression.

Both the CX23880 and CX23881 support a general purpose host port for connection to external CODECs for compression of analog video/audio broadcasts that can be stored on the host's hard disk or played back in software.