Sigma Designs Showcases Video Endpoint Silicon and HDTV Solutions at NAB2003.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB2003 Booth #SL2953 MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2003 At NAB2003, Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM), a leader in digital media processors for consumer appliances, (Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. , South Hall, first floor, booth #SL2953) will showcase the new EM8550 media processor, the EM8605 high definition TV decoder and a sampling of MPEG-4 based appliances. Sigma's EM8550 is a media processor chip that features a local bus and video input port to handle external networking chips, 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). encoders and other peripherals. The base feature set for the chip includes an embedded RISC processor RISC processor [Reduced Instruction Set Computer], computer arithmetic-logic unit that uses a minimal instruction set, emphasizing the instructions used most often and optimizing them for the fastest possible execution. , playback from 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. , CD, MPEG-4, DivX, and other audio/video formats, an IDE and DVD loader interfaces, and ability to scale video to virtually any display resolution. The EM8550 is targeted at low cost video endpoints as well as networked DVD players. The EM8550 will be demonstrated at NAB within a networked DVD player from KiSS Technology. Other live demonstrations will include: -- A high definition TV demonstration based on the EM8605, the first silicon to support MPEG-4 along with 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 ; -- IP video set-top boxes from Samsung and InfoEQ, featuring streaming MPEG-2 from ThirdSpace and streaming MPEG-4 from Kasenna respectively; -- Additional DVD players and set-top appliances based on Sigma's MPEG-4 decoder solutions. Sigma Design's Booth Sigma's products and technologies will be featured at Sigma's corporate booth, booth #SL2953 located at the Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, first floor and throughout the show floor. Sigma's representatives will be available for interviews with the press. For more information please contact Stephanie Porter, Edelman at stephanie.porter@edelman.com or 650/429-2762. For other information about NAB2003, please visit the NAB2003 web site at: www.nab.org/. About NAB2003 Located at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Las Vegas Hilton The Las Vegas Hilton is a hotel, casino, and convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a joint venture between Colony Capital, which owns 60 percent, and New York City-based REIT Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, which owns the remaining 40 percent. in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nev., NAB2003, exhibits held April 7-10, is the world's leading conference and exhibition for the converging electronic media communications industries. Produced annually in April by the National Associations of Broadcasters, the NAB Show delivers the most comprehensive showcase of digital communications Transmitting text, voice and video in binary form. See communications. technologies including every element of television and radio broadcasting The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , film/video production and post production, audio production, multimedia, the Internet, satellite and telecommunications. About Sigma Designs, Inc. Sigma Designs specializes in silicon-based MPEG decoding for streaming video, progressive DVD playback and advanced digital set-top boxes. The company's award-winning REALmagic(R) Video Streaming Technology is used in both commercial and consumer applications providing highly integrated solutions for high-quality decoding of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., the company also has sales offices in China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.sigmadesigns.com/. Note to Editors: REALmagic(R) is a registered trademark of Sigma Designs, Inc. Other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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