Agfa Monotype Licenses iType and TV Font Pack to Sanyo; iType and TV Fonts to be Implemented in Sanyo's new Extended Definition TV Tuner.Business/Technology Editors CES 2002 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2002 Consumer Electronics Show--Agfa Monotype Corporation today announced that Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation, the U.S. television manufacturing division of Sanyo, has entered into a long-term, worldwide agreement to license font technology for the DIR-2000 EDTV (Enhanced Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards with 480 lines of resolution. All EDTV formats are progressive scan (480p) and provide a sharper picture than SDTV (Standard Definition TV), but not as good as HDTV (High Definition TV). Tuner, Sanyo's latest set-top box for digital television systems. Sanyo has licensed Agfa Monotype's TV font pack and iType(TM), the company's high-performance font rendering technology for memory-constrained digital communication devices. "We're pleased to be a part of this project by providing the ability to quickly deliver high-quality text to television screens from this remarkably user-friendly DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. set-top box," said Doug Shaw, senior vice president of Agfa Monotype's OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and business unit. "We also worked closely with Sanyo to meet specific font requirements for closed captioning as mandated by the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. for both analog and digital TV." Agfa Monotype's iType Extremely portable and compact, iType is Agfa Monotype's latest font scaling technology that allows for the rapid generation of characters at virtually any point size. With iType, OEMs are able to build memory-constrained devices such as set-top boxes and Internet appliances with the ability to quickly generate high-quality text for on-screen displays. iType supports embedded bitmapped fonts for enhanced screen quality at smaller point sizes, character caching for improved character generation performance, concurrent disk/ROM support for dynamically storing additional fonts, and television closed-captioning capabilities that meet the Electronics Industries Alliance specification (EIA-708B). iType includes two main components: a high-performance TrueType(R) rasterizer and a suite of fonts that are selected by the OEM. In addition to the TV pack which supports the EIA-708B standard for closed captioning, OEMs can choose from three other prepackaged pre·pack·age tr.v. pre·pack·aged, pre·pack·ag·ing, pre·pack·ag·es To wrap or package (a product) before marketing. Adj. 1. font collections: a Microsoft(R) Windows(R)-compatible core set that provides metrically met·ri·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or composed in poetic meter: metrical verse; five metrical units in a line. 2. Of or relating to measurement. equivalent designs; a suite of delta-hinted display fonts engineered for optimal readability on television screens; and Agfa Monotype's stroke-based package, a set of composite Asian fonts that allows OEMs to meet stringent code requirements while achieving storage savings of 90 percent. OEMs can also work with Agfa Monotype to implement custom fonts, or select from the company's comprehensive selection of over 1,000 TrueType fonts. Sanyo's DIR-2000 EDTV Tuner The DIR-2000 DTV set-top box uses the latest 8-VSB demodulator See demodulate. Demodulator A device used to recover the original modulating signal from a modulated wave. A demodulator is also known as a detector. chip technology and an MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). video decoder using Sanyo's proprietary down-converter algorithm to deliver a crisp, high-quality digital picture (480i or 480p output, ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. only) to virtually any standard TV. Expected to be available in the spring of 2002 at a suggested list price of $399, the DIR-2000 includes a full-function, multimedia remote control. The tuner's ease-of-use is further enhanced by the seamless integration of DTV (ATSC) and NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. channels. Initial setup is fully automatic for channel search, monitor type and clock/day. DTV channels are automatically updated through the tuner's NightScan feature, and users can easily perform a complete channel search for both DTV and NTSC channels. About Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation, headquartered in Forrest City, Arkansas Forrest City is a city in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States. It was named as a result of General Nathan Bedford Forrest using the location as a campsite for a construction crew soon after the Civil War. , produces Sanyo and Fisher brand color television sets for retailers in North America. The current product line ranges from 13-inch through 36-inch screen sizes and offers a wide variety of feature packages, including new "Flat Screen" technology models. Among the most frequently purchased brands in America, Sanyo televisions are deemed by consumer reporting publications as high performers with excellent repair history ratings. Reviews like these testify to the high quality craftsmanship for which Sanyo is known. Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation's latest "Super Line" alone has increased production capacity by over one-half million televisions per year. Sanyo's two facilities (Forrest City and Tijuana, Mexico) are ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 and ISO 14000 certified. Together, the two plants produce over three million television sets annually. About Agfa Monotype Corporation Agfa Monotype Corporation is a major provider of digital content for graphics professionals. The company is a recognized leader in fonts and font technologies and an innovator in color and screening technologies. Agfa Monotype is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Agfa Corporation and is part of Agfa's Graphic Systems business unit. Agfa Corporation is part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, one of the world's leading imaging companies, headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. Agfa develops, produces and markets analog and digital systems, primarily for the graphics, medical imaging, non-destructive testing and consumer imaging and photography markets. Worldwide, sales for 2000 were 5.26 billion euros. In the U.S., Agfa is headquartered in Ridgefield Park, N.J. and employs approximately 4,000 people. Additional information about Agfa Monotype and its products can be found on the company's Web sites at www.agfamonotype.com and www.fonts.com. |
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