Diamond Multimedia Systems selects S3's Vision968.SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1995--S3 Incorporated (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 :SIII) announced today that Diamond Multimedia Systems has chosen the S3 Vision968, integrated graphics and video accelerator, for its newly released Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM See video RAM. VRAM - video random-access memory multimedia accelerator board. The announcement marks the first use of the S3 Vision968 by Diamond Multimedia Systems, a leading supplier of multimedia acceleration solutions for the PC market. "As applications such as games and interactive CD-ROMs continue to incorporate digital video, users are demanding a solution that couples high-performance graphics acceleration with support for video," said Ken Wirt, vice president of marketing at Diamond Multimedia Systems. "By incorporating S3's Vision968, Diamond is able to provide its customers with a powerful graphics solution that integrates quality, full-screen video playback." "S3 has worked closely with Diamond Multimedia Systems since 1991 and we are pleased to extend this relationship to our latest generation of products," said Gary Johnson, S3's sr. vice president, multimedia and mobile products. "As a leader in the field of multimedia, Diamond's decision to use the S3 Vision968 on their Stealth 64 Video VRAM affirms S3's strategy to deliver leading-edge multimedia acceleration solutions to the PC market." Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM The Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM provides high-performance graphics acceleration and displays smooth video at 30 frames per second (FPS) in a full screen up to 1280 x 1024 resolution. Diamond's InControl Tools productivity software, operating under Windows, controls the multimedia functions of the accelerator while providing complete desktop management. In addition to its InControl tools, Diamond also bundles CorelDRAW 4.0, Asymetrix 3D F/X and Asymetrix Digital Video Producer software programs at no charge to the user. The Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM is available in March for an estimated retail price of $389 for the 2MB version and $559 for the 4MB version. S3 Vision968 Meeting the needs of emerging multimedia applications, S3's Vision968 integrates an optimized 64-bit graphics engine with a sophisticated video playback engine, enabling complete multimedia playback capability with support for high-quality, full-screen software video playback at 30 FPS onto a single device. The S3 Vision968's video playback engine's multimedia capabilities include color space conversion Changing one type of color-encoded signal into another. Converting from RGB to YUV and back to RGB are common color space conversions when working with video formats (see YUV). Converting from the display color space (RGB) to the printer color space (CMYK) is another common example. , bilinear bi·lin·e·ar adj. Linear with respect to each of two variables or positions. Used of functions or equations. Adj. 1. bilinear - linear with respect to each of two variables or positions scaling, linear interpolation, filtering and dithering. In addition, S3's full suite of software drivers have been enhanced for multimedia through built-in support for the Intel/Microsoft Display Control Interface (DCI) specification. The video-enabled Vision968 also provides direct support for Microsoft Video for Windows The name of Microsoft's first video playback implementation in Windows. Supporting the AVI movie format, Video for Windows (VfW) was installed separately in Windows 3.x, but was later built into Windows 95 and subsequent versions. , Indeo, CinePak and S3's Native-MPEG, 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). decoding solution, for smooth playback of software video codecs. The S3 Vision968, 64-bit integrated multimedia accelerator, features an internal 64-bit engine and external 64-bit data paths and supports from 1 to 8 MBytes of VRAM. The Vision968 complies with the Green PC VESA Display Power Management Signaling See VESA DPMS. (DPMS See VESA DPMS. (hardware) DPMS - Display Power Management Signaling. ) protocol, interfaces to either the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). local bus or the VL bus and is fully compatible with VGA and SVGA (Super VGA) A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Third-party vendors extended IBM's VGA display standard and were the first to use the term. SVGA has also referred to 1,024x768 resolutions. See PC display modes. . Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. Diamond Multimedia Systems 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. that designs, manufactures, and markets high-performance multimedia solutions including graphics and multimedia accelerators, sound cards, audio/telephony subsystems and multimedia upgrade kits for the personal computer market. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Diamond has marketing and technical support facilities in Tokyo and Munich. The company's products are sold through regional, national and international distributors as well as to major computer retailers, mass merchants and OEMs worldwide. S3 Incorporated S3 Incorporated is dedicated to applying acceleration technology to create a natural PC interface. 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