CEI Introduces Full Featured PC-Based DVD Card.REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1996--Chartered Electronics Industries (CEI CEI Competitive Enterprise Institute CEI Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (Italian bishop conference) CEI Central European Initiative CEI Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano (Italian Electrotechnical Committee) ) introduces two new 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. playback decoder cards for the PC complete with digital and analog copy protection. CEI has always been at the leading edge of digital video and these two products, DVD-CY and DVD-SW, re-affirms the company's expertise in designing industry standard products ahead of other board suppliers. CEI sold its first motion video product for the PC in 1991 and has since won repeated contracts with major PC makers to supply and integrate their multimedia sub-systems. "Through the years See also Through The Years (Gary Glitter song) or Through The Years (Tim Finn song). For the Jethro Tull album, see Through the Years (Jethro Tull). For the Artillery box set, see Through the Years (Artillery album). , CEI has developed a selection of rich graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to to control the different media types which include sound, graphics and live video. With two 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. 9002 certified manufacturing plants in the Far East, we are also extremely competitive in the manufacture of hardware components," said Eugene Tan, Director of Sales and Marketing. DVD is an emerging industry standard for high quality, digital video and has been the "talk of the town" for the next wave of consumer products. The DVD standard includes 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). 2 digital video and Dolby Digital AC-3 sound. Over the last six months, CEI has been working in collaboration with major DVD drive manufacturers to ensure DVD compatibility and also to provide a total drive, decoder solution for 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 accounts. CEI offering is unique in its DVD browser application and emphasis on both digital and analog copy protection. CEI's DVD-CY is an all hardware decode solution which provides the highest quality MPEG2 video decode and is backward compatible to MPEG1 audio/video bit streams. It has a digital Dolby AC-3 stereo audio decoder to provide uncompromising theater surround sound. Output video display can be on a PC monitor or direct to a consumer TV set. DVD-CY is fully compliant with DVD specifications. It requires no extra CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. bandwidth, and includes advanced features that are not available on host-based processing, such as true 5.1 channels digital surround sound output to home theater AV systems, and direct TV connection to 4:3 and 16:9 television sets for big-screen viewing enjoyment. Both digital and analog copyguard protection per DVD standards are also supported. OEM volume price is below $200 per unit. Samples are available today. CEI's DVD-SW is a hardware/software hybrid decode solution. DVD MPEG2 video is decoded via hardware while the digital Dolby AC-3 stereo is decoded via software only. OEM volume price is below $175 per unit. Samples will be available in January 1997. CEI's unique DVD browser software, PrimeTime View, provides a full feature PC-based DVD application. In addition to its intuitive graphical user interface, the PrimeTime View software has navigation controls for interactive DVD titles and other DVD features such as multi-languages and sub-pictures menu. It is fully compliant with Microsoft's ActiveMovie environment and a special MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. version is also available for non-Activemovie environment. CEI is privately held and headquartered in Singapore. It is part of a multi-billion dollar group of companies called Singapore Technologies. CEI sells to the international offices of top tier PC makers. CEI also offers a range of PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. Type II video cards and sells under the "PrimeTime" brand name in Asia. -0- Note to Editors: ActiveMovie is a trademark of Microsoft. Dolby is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories Inc. CONTACT: CEI Eugene Tan, 415/591-6617 (OEM sales) CEIUSA@slip.net Jeff Asis, 415/591-6617 (technical marketing) CONTACT: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED PRODUCT TRADESHOW REPEATS: New York 212-752-9600 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-236-4266 or |
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