ADVISORY/Equator Technologies and Hitachi Ltd. Partner make announcement.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Friday (March 3) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Equator equator, imaginary great circle around the earth, everywhere equidistant from the two geographical poles and forming the base line from which latitude is reckoned. The equator, which measures c.24,902 mi (40,076 km), is designated as lat. 0°. Technologies
What: Webcast of Equator Technologies and Hitachi Ltd. launching
the MAP-CA Media Accelerated Processor for Consumer
Appliances.
When: Tuesday, March 7th at 10 a.m. (Pacific Time)
Where: Webcast at http://www.equator.com
On Tuesday, March 7th, Equator Technologies and Hitachi Ltd. will launch the MAP-CA Media Accelerated Processor for Consumer Appliances in a webcast event. By moving the central functions of television and imaging products into software, the MAP-CA will usher in Verb 1. usher in - be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period" inaugurate, introduce commence, lead off, start, begin - set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. a revolution in television, and bring new media functions to the TV platform. Cisco, Xerox, Canon, Videotron, Rogers, RealNetworks, Interval Research and many other leading companies support this new platform for Internet-connected imaging-intensive devices. The MAP-CA is a 30 GOP (Giga-Operations Per Second) processor that sets a new world record for DSP/Image Processing performance and price-performance. It supports software HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates and software Personal Video Recorders See DVR. , creating products that lead in value, flexibility and longevity longevity (lŏnjĕv`ĭtē), term denoting the length or duration of the life of an animal or plant, often used to indicate an unusually long life. . John Setel O'Donnell, President of Equator Technologies, and Shigemichi Matsuka, Executive Vice President of Hitachi, will introduce the MAP-CA, followed by industry leaders describing how they plan to use the device in breakthrough products. To set up one-on-one phone interviews before or after the webcast, please contact Tom Mahon at tmahon@ncal.verio.com, or 925/937-4921. If you unable to participate in the webcast at this time, the event will be archived at www.equator.com. An e-press kit will be available there, as well. A minimum requirement to join the webcast is RealPlayer software, downloadable free from www.real.com/products/player/index.html, and at least a 28.8 Kbps connection to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . If you experience problems during the webcast, please send an email to map-ca@equator.com. This same email address See Internet address. will be used for press Q&A immediately following the webcast. |
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