C-Cube Wins in Samsung Electronics' Newest DVD Players.Business Editors/High-Tech and Entertainment Writers MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000 C-Cube Microsystems (Nasdaq:CUBE) today announced that consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. has begun volume production of advanced DVD players designed with C-Cube's next-generation 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. decoder, a solution that delivers industry-leading audio-video capabilities while reducing production costs. "ZiVA-4 has enabled Samsung to design DVD players that set a new standard for video and audio quality," said Mr. Young Soon Park, General Manager of Samsung Electronics' DVD Research and Development Team. "Our new ZiVA-4-based players deliver among the most advanced features and capabilities in the home-entertainment industry." ZiVA-4 builds on C-Cube's highly successful ZiVA-3 solution with higher levels of integration and advanced audio and video features including MP3 audio decode to play back personalized CDs, x2 audio to scan through movies, on-the-fly video zoom of movies, and slow-motion forward and reverse. ZiVA-4 also has an integrated video encoder featuring full support for all major 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. and PAL standards and four video-output DACs that support composite, S-video, and component video outputs, along with the European SCART Scart or SCART Noun Electronics a plug-and-socket system which carries pictures and sound, used in home entertainment systems standard. "We are delighted that Samsung selected our ZiVA-4 for its next generation of DVD players," said Fermi Wang, vice president and general manager of C-Cube's Home Media Division."ZiVA-4 is yet another step we are taking along the path of ever-higher integration, combining functionality previously required of multiple chips."
ZiVA-4 includes the following advanced audio and video features:
Audio
-- Dolby Digital(TM) audio decode
-- MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 multi-channel audio decode
-- MP3 audio decode
-- Dedicated 54 MIPS audio DSP that delivers:
-- Home theater effects including WideSound(TM), RealSonic
concert hall, RealSonic dynamic range compression and graphic
equalizer
-- Professional karaoke functions including key control,
microphone echo and treble, simulated stereo, and vocal
harmony, chorus, scoring, flange, reverb
-- Spatializer N-2-2(TM) virtual 6-speaker support
-- Dolby Pro-Logic(TM) decode
-- DTS(TM) digital out
-- Bass redirection
Video
-- MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 video decode
-- Zoom and fade-in/fade-out functions for still and motion pictures
-- DiscView(TM) for simultaneous viewing of nine index images
-- Full fast-forward, reverse and slow-motion trick play
-- Support for 8 bit per pixel OSD (On Screen Display)
NTSC/PAL Video Encoder
-- Four 10-bit video DACs
-- Standard NTSC/PAL, PAL-M, PAL-N, and PAL-Nc for South America
-- PAL-60 or Quasi-PAL (displays NTSC disc on PAL TV)
-- Macrovision encoding on all outputs
ZiVA-4 provides OEMs with full disc playback compatibility for DVD, Chaoji VCD See Video CD. VCD - Video Compact Disc , SuperVCD, VCD, CD-DA (Compact Disc-Digital Audio) The original compact disc format developed by Sony and Philips in the 1980s, which was designed for audio only. Since "CD" is used loosely for all Compact Disc formats, the CD-DA designation differentiates a music disc or player , and MP3 for both NTSC and PAL, and provides full compatibility with and easy migration from ZiVA-3. ZiVA-4 is now in high-volume production. About C-Cube C-Cube Microsystems leads the industry in providing silicon solutions that are driving the global transition from analog to digital video and audio in the home. C-Cube focuses on broadband communications and codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, products. C-Cube's broadband products enable video and data to be transmitted through interactive digital set-top boxes and digital networks. C-Cube's codec products are enabling new digital video consumer applications such as digital VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. , personal video recorders, DVD players and recorders, and video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. systems. C-Cube is headquartered in Milpitas, California Milpitas (IPA pronunciation: mɪlpitʌs; inhabitants are called 'Milpitans') is a city in Santa Clara County, California. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of Highway 237 and generally between Interstate freeways 680 and with offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia. Its stock is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol CUBE. C-Cube can be reached at 408/490-8000 or at http://www.c-cube.com. Note to Editors: C-Cube and the C-Cube logo are registered trademarks of C-Cube Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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