Digital Frontiers HVS products win 1997 New Media Magazine's Hyper Award -- Best Graphic Utility.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1997--Macworld Poised To Release Major Upgrade Versions of Both HVS HVS Human Visual System HVS Herpesvirus Saimiri HVS High Voltage Software HVS High-Volume Sampler HVS Hard, Very Severe (rock climbing grade) HVS Hue, Value, Saturation (color model, aka HLS) (TM) Color(TM) and HVS(TM) WebFocus(TM), Digital Frontiers Wins Wide Industry Acclaim For Innovation and Technical Excellence Digital Frontiers' HVS technology plug-ins, HVS Color and WebFocus have been awarded New Media Magazine's 1997 Hyper A Greek work meaning "above" or "more than." It is used as a prefix to technical concepts and products to convey a more advanced or more automatic capability. Award for Best Graphic Utility. Featured at the Macromedia booth at this week's Macworld exhibition, HVS Color and WebFocus have been widely praised among industry writers and technical experts culminating in this year's award. HVS Color converts 24-bit images to eight bits or less with no loss of visual quality, resulting in brilliant Web images that load up to 70 percent faster. WebFocus includes HVS' proprietary color reduction technology and extends those benefits to the JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. format. PUBLISH MAGAZINE gave HVS Color a 5 Star rating (January 1997) and MACWORLD MAGAZINE calls HVS Color "... an essential tool for Web artists and photographers." (October 1996). HVS(TM) (Human Visual Systems) products utilize ground-breaking, patented quality enhancement algorithms based on digital simulation of human visual perception. Both HVS Color and WebFocus are in process of receiving significant upgrades. The HVS 2.0 upgrades represent a major re-factoring of the functionality previously available in HVS Color and WebFocus. Hence forth, WebFocus will refer to a bundling together of HVS ColorGIF 2.0 and HVS JPEG 2.0, both of which contain 100 percent Digital Frontiers code. Any customer purchasing 1.0 versions of HVS products up until the new HVS 2.0 bundle is released is entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: to the free upgrade. Digital Frontiers products may be purchased online at http://www.digfrontiers.com, or by calling 800/328-7789. HVS products are also available in MacWarehouse, Publisher's Toolbox See toolkit and toolbar. , Adobe Image Club, Publishing Perfection and MacZone catalogues. Digital Frontiers products are distributed in Japan and South Asia This article is about the geopolitical region in Asia. For geophysical treatments, see Indian subcontinent. South Asia, also known as Southern Asia by Unison unison, in music, tones identical in pitch produced by two or more parts or voices. In popular usage a vocal composition is said to be sung in unison even though some of the voices are separated from others by the interval of an octave. , Inc. Distribution in Europe and the UK is in process and should be established by the end of 1Q 1997. NOTE TO EDITORS: The following e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address contains an "at" symbol, between "douglasf" and "digfrontiers.com." This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Digital Frontiers, Evanston, Ill. Douglas Frohman, 847/328-0880 Fax: 847/869-2053 E-mail: douglasf@digfrontiers.com |
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