Marvell Technology Group Ltd. announced that TCL Corporation is the first company to offer both a Smart TV and set-top box with Google TV, powered by the Marvell ARMADA 1500 series System-on-Chip platform. The TCL MoVo with Google TV and TCL MoVo Box with Google TV represent the expansion of TCL's geographical focus into the U.S. market and reinforce the ubiquity of Marvell's technology in the Smart TV space. Marvell and TCL will demonstrate the products at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Booth Nos.

31423 and 9825, respectively. TCL's MoVo with Google TV and MoVo Box with Google TV are designed to incorporate the best of Google TV, including Voice Search and PrimeTime, all powered in part by data analytics insight from Google's Knowledge Graph. The products also feature signature access to popular on-demand video services such as Vudu, Netflix and YouTube -- along with TCL's proprietary Personal Box Office technology and support for PinPoint-enabled devices and nScreen multimedia and game playback.

The ARMADA 1500 contains Marvell's Qdeo video processing for HD and 3D video, including scaling, noise reduction, de-interlacing, low bit-rate Internet video enhancement and FRC, and color/contrast enhancement. The chip offers VMeta, a multi-format video decoder that can decode up to two simultaneous 1080p streams as well as a host of other video formats and containers.