DVDO Selects Y/C Plus as Distributor of iScan Plus Video Line Doubler.CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1999-- DVDO, Inc. announced today that it has selected Y/C Y/C Luminance/Chrominance Plus of Topeka, Ks. as a distribution organization for DVDO's video enhancement consumer electronics product, the iScan Plus(TM) PureProgressive(TM) Display Interface. The iScan Plus video line doubler has been well received in the home theater and commercial/industrial display markets since initial shipments began in May 1999. The iScan Plus provides high performance line doubling for 31.5 kHz capable display devices, and provides users with 3:2 pulldown detection, and separate algorithms for film sourced video, graphics, and popular video games. The iScan Plus enhances the video on DTV-ready direct view monitors, LCD projectors, Plasma displays, CRT (1) (C RunTime) See runtime library. (2) (Cathode Ray Tube) A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor or TV. The viewing end of the tube is coated with phosphors, which emit light when struck by electrons. front and rear projection systems, and other display devices capable of accepting de-interlaced progressively scanned video data. The iScan Plus has received very favorable reviews in periodicals such as "The Perfect Vision" magazine, and "Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity." Neil D. Newman, vice president of Marketing & Sales at DVDO said, "DVDO welcomes the new relationship with Y/C Plus. We have great respect for the market penetration that Y/C Plus has been able to achieve and for the products they represent, and for the products they have innovated and supported through their customer and dealer network." Y/C Plus President, Larry Heilman adds, "We welcome the opportunity to work with DVDO. Their iScan Plus is a real contribution to the home theater and consumer markets. No one else delivers such amazing quality at this breakthrough price." Y/C Plus, Inc. is 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. based in Topeka Ks., and manufacturers video and audio products such as Signal Test Generators, Audio Converters, S-Video Adapters and Time Base Corrector Remote Controls. Y/C Plus has recently reached a separate agreement with Philips Consumer Electronic Products for distribution of Philips Smartcard Video Monitors with an analog RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). input card. See the Y/C Plus web site at www.ycplus.com. DVDO is a privately held company that designs, manufactures and markets chip and system-level solutions for the next generation of Digital Television and Digital Video Electronic products. The target market spaces for DVDO's products include Digital Video Disc See DVD. Digital Video Disc - Digital Versatile Disc (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. ) Players, Digital Television (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. ), HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates , Digital Satellite Systems (DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S ), Home Theater, Automotive and Airline Entertainment applications, and other display technologies that require high performance video de-interlacing and motion handling with artifact elimination. DVDO is the creator of the proprietary Image Enhancement Engine(TM) Technology, a new, high performance and cost effective solution for chip-level digital video processing enhancement. DVDO has more than 13 U. S. and international patents pending on this new technology. See the new DVDO iScan Plus on our website at www.dvdo.com |
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