Activa 220 / 230 + Activa 250 Benefits Overview
Zorans Activa 220 is a DVD Recorder System-on-a-Chip Multimedia Processor that integrates a high performance, all-digital read/write front end (write strategy, DSP, and servo controller) and high quality back end (DVD playback, DVB demultiplexing and decode, and MPEG encode). Activa 220 has direct interfaces to multiple Optical Pickup Units (OPUs) via the Activa 250 RF amplifier chip.

FEATUREs
General
• System-on-a-Chip solution for DVD recorder/player
• Digital Front End (DSP, Servo, Write Strategy)
• Back End (MPEG Encoder, DVD Decoder, DVB Demultiplexer and
   Decoder)
• Unified Memory Architecture
• Powerful 162 MHz 32-bit RISC CPU enables next generation
   applications
• Intuitive DVDR application and user interface
• Enables time-shift and "Watch and Record" applications

Recording
• Real time, 100% compliant DVD-Video, DVD-VR, and DVD+VR
   authoring
• Rich DVD-Video menus with Thumbnails
• Supports DVD-R/-RW/-RAM/+R/+RW, CD-R/-RW formats
• Certified Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder
• VCPS, CPRM content protection
• 1.4-10 Mbps VBR/CBR (2-/4-/6-/8-hr record modes) bitrates
• DV25 Decode, Real-time Transcode to MPEG
• 256Mb to 512Mb SDRAM configurations

Digital Video Decoder
• DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, CVD, SVCD, VCD, CDDA Decoding
• DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x/6.x(Ultra), XviD full-D1 (with QPEL and GMC)
• MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile Level 5 (720x480 @ 30fps)
• Glueless HDMI i/f to ZR36721 (HDXtreme)
• JPEGXtreme enables image display at true HD resolution
   w/ZR36721

Analog Video
• NTSC/PAL/SECAM/480P/576P analog video encoder with five
   12-bit/108Mhz video DACs
• Horizontal Resolutions: 720, 704, 544, 480, 360, 352
• 3-field de-interlacing , de-blocking and de-ringing filters
• Simultaneous interlaced/progressive video output with independent
   OSD control
• Embedded NTSC/PAL Video Decoder with Time Base Correction
   (TBC) and 3D Y/C Separation
• Input video noise filtering (horizontal, vertical, temporal)
• Closed Captioning/Teletext/EPG VBI Bitslicing/Decoding and
   Insertion
• Input analog video: RGB, CVBS, or Y/C
• Picture-in-Picture for external source preview