Apex Digital Selects Planetweb's Digital Photo Management Software To Enable Photo Printing In Latest Line of DVD Players.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CES 2002 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2002 Apex Player First to Offer Photo Printing via Planetweb's Digital Photo Manager(TM) Apex Digital Apex Digital, Inc. is an American electronics manufacturer based in City of Industry, California. They manufacture mainly budget-priced consumer electronics such as televisions and DVD players. , the 'More For Your Money' DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. company, and Planetweb, the leading developer of consumer electronics software applications for manufacturers worldwide, announced today that Planetweb's digital photo management software will be embedded in a new line of Apex DVD players using the Vaddis V chipset from Zoran. Planetweb is licensing its Digital Photo Manager application to Apex on at least two models currently scheduled to ship in March of 2002. Apex Digital, known for being the first to offer consumers new DVD player features like MP3 and SACD (Super Audio CD) A high-resolution CD audio format from Sony and Philips. SACD and DVD-Audio (DVD-A) were the two next-generation digital audio formats for enhanced sound quality, but neither one caught on (see high-resolution audio). read capability, does it again with the addition of photo printing to its feature set via Planetweb's Digital Photo Manager software. Apex will offer consumers the ability to not only manage, but also print their digital photos in the living room using an enabled USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. photo printer. The device's new photo management features from Planetweb include: -- Displaying images from a picture CD (Kodak, Fuji, QSS, Konica) -- Creating slideshows -- Photo printing to an enabled USB printer "Planetweb's Digital Photo Manager software, with its unmatched photo printing features, is the obvious choice for Apex Digital, as we continue to be the first to deliver new features to consumers via DVD players," said Ancle Hsu, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Apex Digital. "Apex is a perfect partner for Planetweb because they share our mission to bring new, popular features to consumers through existing devices," said Ken Soohoo, president and CEO, Planetweb. " With three million American consumers already using Apex machines, we are confident this relationship will be a significant source of growth for our software." Apex (Central Hall 3-5, Booth No. 1321) and Planetweb (Central Hall 3-5, Booth No. 573) will be demonstrating photo printing on the enhanced DVD player at CES. Apex will also be holding a press conference in Room S227 at CES from 10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 8. About Apex Digital APEX Digital, Inc., a division of United Delta, Inc., is a leading U.S. manufacturer of DVD players sold in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada under the APEX Digital brand name. "More For Your Money" is the company's credo, as witnessed by the first MP3/DVD player for less than $100. For more information, visit http://www.apexdigitalinc.com. About Planetweb, Inc. Planetweb is the leading developer of consumer electronics software applications and services for OEMs and silicon chip manufacturers worldwide. The applications and services bring popular features and functionality to digital entertainment devices in the living room, including DVD players, game consoles, set-top boxes and interactive televisions. Planetweb is the only company offering a full suite of offline and online applications, including the Digital Photo Manager(TM), Digital Audio Manager(TM), DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. Content Viewer and an Internet Communications package, which make consumer electronics devices more attractive to consumers. Planetweb products are designed to be quick and easy for manufacturers to implement and can be customized and ported to any hardware platform, even those without an operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Planetweb(R), a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California Redwood Shores is an upscale and desirable [1] waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is located on the eastern edge of Belmont, but is actually part of incorporated Redwood City. , and has offices in Tokyo, Japan and London, England. For more information, please visit http://www.planetweb.com/ |
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