Mediatek has announced yet another chipset, Mediatek MT9602 which has been custom made for Smart TVs. The chipset will feature many new features such as the AI-PQ(image quality), AI-AQ (sound quality), HDMI 2.1a support, global HDR, AV1, and AVS2 decoding support. The company claims that all these features will be able to improve the audio and image for real-time video. That is not all, Motorola has announced that it will be launching its new range of smart TV with the same chipset.
Flipkart, which is the biggest e-commerce giant in India has cooperated with Motorola to launch HD, FHD, and QHD resolution smart TVs equipped with MediaTek MT9602 in India. The new lineup is expected to launch tomorrow and it will become the first smart TV in India to use the Android 10 operating system. Before that, all the smart TVs were using the Android 9 operating system. The MediaTek MT9602 uses a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 design, has a Mali-G52 MC1 GPU, and supports 2GB of storage.
The new SoC also comes with AI voice technology that would support up to four directional microphones, integrated voice assistant, and hands-free voice control. It would also support integration with other IoT products at home. The SoC also has Dolby Atmos support, Dolby Vision HDR, HDR10+, BBC HLG, dual-band WiFi, and response time compensation feature to reduce blur. The new series of Smart TVs will definitely bring a lot of new features for the Smart TV market in India. More details will be available about Smart TVs after launch tomorrow.