Bitstream Releases the CCTV Font Set; High-Quality, Readable Fonts Meet FCC Requirements for Closed Captioning Display On Digital and Analog TVs.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002 Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BITS) announced today the release of the CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television Font Set(TM), which supports the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. (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. ) requirements for closed captioning display on digital and analog TVs. Bitstream carefully selected the fonts to be very readable on the TV screen and implemented all the FCC-required styles. The CCTV Font Set includes the Tiresias Screenfont, developed specifically for closed captioning by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB RNIB Royal National Institute of Blind People (UK) ). The Tiresias Screenfont is the standard font endorsed by the DTG DTG Date-Time Group DTG Digital Television Group (UK trade association) DTG Distance To Go DTG Days To Go DTG Digital Transmission Group DTG Direct Trunk Group DTG Digital Trunk Group DTG Dance Theatre of the Gospel (Digital Terrestrial Group) and by the DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. (Digital Video Broadcasting) organization for the MHP MHP Multimedia Home Platform (consumer electronics) MHP Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Turkish: National People's Party) MHP Mobile Home Park (district) MHP Maximum Human Performance (Multimedia Home Platform). Closed captioning involves displaying the "audio" portion of a TV broadcast as text, which is superimposed su·per·im·pose tr.v. su·per·im·posed, su·per·im·pos·ing, su·per·im·pos·es 1. To lay or place (something) on or over something else. 2. over the video portion. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , it allows viewers who are hearing impaired to access TV broadcasts. To display closed-captioned text, the viewers must have a set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. decoder or a TV receiver that includes this decoding capability. The FCC has updated its closed captioning requirements for digital TVs. By July 1, 2002, manufacturers must include FCC-mandated decoder circuitry for closed captioning in their digital TV devices. "Bitstream has been at the forefront of making text very legible on digital TVs. This includes our work with the RNIB and such leading standards organizations as the DTG, DVB, and MHP," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "Creating high-quality text is important because analog and digital TVs are low-resolution devices. A typical TV at best will have only 1/25, or 4%, the resolution of a printed page! So it's important that these devices have text that is easy to read. The CCTV font set makes that possible and enables manufacturers to meet these very important requirements for the hearing disabled." New CCTV Font Set Bitstream created a CCTV Font Set that supports the FCC mandates for font styles. These fonts are carefully selected to be very readable on the TV screen and implement all the FCC-required styles: Bitstream Inc. EIA-708 Specification for CCTV Font Set FCC Closed Captioning Compliance Courier 10 Pitch Monospaced with serifs Oranda(TM) Proportionally spaced with serifs Letter Gothic 12 Pitch Monospaced without serifs Tiresias Screenfont(a) Proportionally spaced without serifs Mister Earl(TM) Light Casual font type Kaufmann(TM) Cursive font type Copperplate Gothic(TM) Bold Condensed Small capitals Default (undefined) Default (undefined) (a) The Tiresias Screenfont has been adopted by many organizations - such as the DTG, DVB, and MHP - as the standard font for closed captioning. The CCTV Font Set is a separate product offered with Bitstream's Font Fusion Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution. The entire source code is portable, optimized, and executes independent of operating system and processor. (TM), version 2.3. Font Fusion is Bitstream's premier font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine. About the Tiresias Screenfont The Tiresias Screenfont was originally designed by a team led by Dr. John Gill John Gill may refer to:
The Tiresias Screenfont includes characters that are easy to distinguish from one another. Throughout the design process, the key factors that affect legibility were studied. These factors include character shapes, relative thickness of the character shapes, inter-character spacing, and aspect ratios that affect the maximum size at which the font can be used. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream is currently developing ThunderHawk(TM), a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and CCTV Font Set, Font Fusion, Mister Earl, Oranda, and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Copperplate Gothic and Kaufmann are trademarks of Kingsley-ATF Type Corporation. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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