Short Take: Philips touts design specs for Intercast TV technology

Philips Semiconductors announced a reference design for manufacturers developing PC add-in boards that decode both PAL and NTSC Intercast TV broadcasts. The design kit comprises a PCI-based video capture board, an on-board tuner, and software to extract Intercast content from TV signals, for display on a PC. Intercast technology was devised by Intel to transmit Web content via TV broadcast signals.