Newport Media and CyberLink Collaborate to Deliver Fast-Switching Technology for Mobile TV Products.Two Companies Combine to Deliver Fast Channel Switching Between One and Two Seconds, Improving the Overall Customer Experience LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- The second sentence of the fourth paragraph should read: "Our continued collaboration will deliver solutions that combine increased performance and power savings, enhancing the overall customer experience with mobile TV." (sted, "Our Newport Media and CyberLink Collaborate to Deliver Fast-Switching Technology for Mobile TV Products continued collaboration will deliver solutions that combine increased performance and power savings, enhancing the overall customer experience with mobile TV.") The corrected release reads: NEWPORT MEDIA AND CYBERLINK COLLABORATE TO DELIVER FAST-SWITCHING TECHNOLOGY FOR MOBILE TV PRODUCTS Two Companies Combine to Deliver Fast Channel Switching Between One and Two Seconds, Improving the Overall Customer Experience Newport Media, an innovative fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. supplying products to the mobile broadcast media market, today announced that it has partnered with CyberLink to deliver fast channel switching times for mobile TV. Newport's patented MobiZap[TM] technology combined with CyberLink's Mobile 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. Solution allows users to experience channel switching times between one to two seconds, whether moving from channels next to each other or entering random channels. Newport Media and CyberLink will be conducting product demonstrations of Newport's MobiZap[TM] technology during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Jan. 8-11, in Las Vegas. Newport Media's MobiZap[TM] technology has been integrated into its single-chip NMI (NonMaskable Interrupt) A high-priority interrupt that cannot be disabled by another interrupt. It is used to report malfunctions such as parity, bus and math coprocessor errors. NMI - Non-Maskable Interrupt 300 mobile digital TV receiver, the world's lowest-power single-chip mobile TV receiver for Digital Video Broadcasting-Handhelds (DVB-H See mobile TV and DVB. ) and DVB-Terrestrial (DVB-T See DVB. ) Handsets. The NMI300 is part of the Sundance Series of Mobile Television products which supports other popular air interface standards including Terrestrial-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB T-DMB Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting ), Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T ISDB-T Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial ) and MediaFLO. "CyberLink is a much-respected pioneer in the mobile TV industry and we are pleased to have worked together to develop the best possible channel-switching performance for the rapidly emerging DVB-H mobile TV standard," said Mohy Abdelgany, president and chief executive officer (CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. ) for Newport Media. "Our continued collaboration will deliver solutions that combine increased performance and power savings, enhancing the overall customer experience with mobile TV." "As the mobile TV market matures, we are expanding the range of features we offer to consumers, cooperating with leaders in the mobile TV semiconductor market," said Alice H. Chang, CyberLink CEO. "Newport Media's innovative technology has broken down a number of very critical performance barriers for the mobile TV industry. We believe that the combination of Newport Media's MobiZap[TM] technology with our industry-leading software, CyberLink Mobile DTV, will provide a highly compelling viewing experience for consumers." Newport Media's NMI300 solution can receive up to eight simultaneous channels while maintaining an extremely low 3.0 dB noise figure to extend coverage area with superior quality. The single chip offering includes a quad-band, direct-conversion radio, a DVB-H demodulator See demodulate. Demodulator A device used to recover the original modulating signal from a modulated wave. A demodulator is also known as a detector. , plus all necessary memory in a very small 7mm x 7mm footprint. No other external memory, baluns or loop filters are required to create a complete solution, and the device is manufactured using low-cost, 0.13-micron complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. ) process technology. CyberLink's Mobile DTV solution incorporates technologies that support the playback of audio-video bitstream and Electronic Service Guide (ESG ESG Enterprise Strategy Group (Veritas) ESG Emergency Shelter Grant (Florida, USA) ESG Expeditionary Strike Group ESG Electronic Service Guide (used in DVB) ) data to a standards-based device. CyberLink's solution is also compliant with the Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Services (DVB-CBMS) specifications for Internet Protocol Datacasting using DVB-H. About Newport Media, Inc. Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and sells highly integrated solutions for emerging digital audio and mobile TV broadcast standards. Newport Media has assembled a management and development team with comprehensive system semiconductor experience in wireless handset and digital set-top box industries. Newport Media's development team leverages its collective experience in these converging industries to develop broadcast multimedia architectures and IC implementations with unprecedented performance, power consumption, size and cost. For more information, visit www.newportmediainc.com. About CyberLink Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced digital video and audio software to the market. Producer of the world's leading 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. software player, PowerDVD, CyberLink also delivers complete solutions for the digital home and online learning solutions. CyberLink's strength lies in its in-depth knowledge of digital video codecs, owning a number of patented digital video and audio technologies. Combined with extensive user-interface research, CyberLink has successfully launched multimedia applications that are robust and powerful, yet friendly enough for the non-professional users. With customers spanning from multinational corporations, to small/medium sized businesses and power users to home users, CyberLink has enjoyed rapid growth and consistent profitability leading to a record breaking IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. in October of 2000 on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :5203). Currently, CyberLink is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) Established in 1961, the only centralized securities market in Taiwan. (ticker symbol:5203.TW) To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region including Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei and its Web site is located at www.cyberlink.com Newport Media is a trademark of Newport Media, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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