Zoran's Vaddis Chip Shipping in Orion's New Line of DVD Players and First TV/DVD Combo Product.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 3, 2001 Vaddis Delivers Full-Featured 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. Playback To Leading Japanese Consumer Electronics OEM Using Single 16-Mbit SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq:ZRAN), a leading provider of digital solutions-on-a-chip for applications in the growing multimedia and consumer electronics markets, today announced that the Vaddis III DVD Decoder IC is used in Orion's new 14" TV/DVD Combo unit, Model TV/DVD 1450, and Standalone DVD player, Model WT-DVD400. The Vaddis DVD Decoder IC incorporates Zoran patented technology allowing it to deliver full-featured DVD playback with a single 16-Mbit SDRAM, half of the memory required by competing solutions. These two new models are the first in Orion's extensive new line of TV/DVD Combo units and standalone DVD players using Vaddis DVD Decoders. Orion Electric Co., Ltd is a leading Japanese manufacturer of consumer electronics products including video cassette recorders, combination color TV/VCR units, and DVD players. Orion's TV/DVD 1450 Combo player integrates a fully featured DVD player with a 14" television, delivering standalone DVD performance in this compact solution. This unit incorporates advanced features enabled by the Vaddis DVD Decoder IC such as bookmarking, which enriches the user's experience by enabling access to favorite locations on a disk at the press of a button. Zoran's interpolative scaling algorithm, ZoranZoom(TM), allows the user to zoom in while preserving the sharpness of the image. The TV/DVD 1450 supports high quality audio output to external speakers through either S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital InterFace) A serial interface for transferring digital audio from CD and DVD players to amplifiers and TVs. S/PDIF is typically used to transmit PCM and Dolby Digital 5.1, but is not tied to any sampling rate or audio standard. or analog outputs. Orion's Model WT-DVD400 standalone DVD player is built upon Zoran's Vaddis III DVD Decoder IC and the Vaddis CompanionCPU. This model incorporates the same advanced DVD player features as the Model TV/DVD 1450. The recently announced Vaddis CompanionCPU is highly integrated, consisting of a 32-bit RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , 510 Kbytes of Flash memory, and embedded SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory . The embedded Flash memory stores the entire DVD player program code, while the embedded SRAM eliminates the need for additional external CPU memories. Together the Vaddis DVD Decoder IC and the Vaddis CompanionCPU enable leading edge features in the Model WT-DVD400 while achieving lower system costs. "With the introduction of our TV/DVD 1450 Combo Player and WT-DVD400 standalone unit, Orion is delivering the first in our new line of integrated DVD solutions to the market. We appreciate the support we have received from Zoran and Fujifilm Microdevices in enabling us to deliver these solutions with quick time to market," said Toshio Teramae, managing director of Orion Corporation. "Zoran has leveraged its DVD expertise into leading reference designs based upon our Vaddis decoders. Our reference designs include the OEM-ready hardware and software backbone that allows the manufacturer to quickly add features and customize designs for specific applications targeted at new market opportunities," said Ram Ofir, director of marketing at Zoran Corporation. "Orion's expertise in the combo unit market combined with our OEM-ready reference design enabled them to bring a leading TV/DVD combo product to market rapidly." "Today Fujifilm Microdevices and Zoran are supporting new 0DVD-based technologies that promise to yield innovative and competitive solutions for our customers," said Akira Kashiwagi, 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. , Fujifilm Microdevices Co., Ltd. "The Vaddis product line has a proven track record addressing the needs of the DVD market. Its maturity provides a robust platform which manufacturers can build upon to differentiate their products and to deliver new features in consumer DVD combos, players or recorders." About the Vaddis DVD Decoder IC Family The newest Vaddis Decoder ICs offer enhanced audio capabilities including support for Meridian Lossless Packing Meridian Lossless Packing, also known as Packed PCM (PPCM), is a proprietary lossless compression technique for compressing PCM audio data developed by Meridian Audio, Ltd. (MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) The compression technique used in DVD-Audio that provides the highest audio quality. It delivers two channels at 192 kHz with 24-bit samples or six channels at 96 kHz. ) for DVD-Audio, and full DTS (1) (Digital Theatre Sound) A digital audio encoding system used in movie and home theaters. Popularized by the movie Jurassic Park, the six-channel (5. decoding. These Vaddis digital video and audio decoders incorporate an NTSC/PAL video encoder and 10-bit video Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), eliminating the need for an additional external chip. The Vaddis supports a vast array of features and capabilities including ZoranZoom and a variety of trick play functions as well as 3D virtual surround, Karaoke, 3D Headphones, and Dolby Digital playback. Part numbers are as follows: Vaddis III DVD Decoder IC No. ZR36710 DVD-based technologies that promise to yield innovative and and Vaddis CompanionCPU No. ZR36703. About Orion Corporation The Orion group of companies has facilities and offices on three continents. The group employs in excess of 7,000 people at factories and offices in Osaka and Fukui, Japan; Thailand; Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. and London, UK; Frankfurt, Germany; and Indiana, Missouri and New Jersey, United States. Orion has manufacturing facilities to produce large and small screen color televisions for the U.S. and European markets, video cassette recorders and players, and combination CTV/VCR units, computer monitors, camcorders (VHS-C VHS-C Video Home System Compact ) and DVD players. Orion Electric Co., Ltd. may be contacted on the World Wide Web at www.orion-electric.co.jp. About Fujifilm Microdevices Co., Ltd. Fujifilm Microdevices Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd with headquarters in Sendai Industrial Park in Japan. It is dedicated to the design, manufacture and marketing of multimedia products including: CCD CCD in full charge-coupled device Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device. image sensors, 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. codecs, 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). , Audio and DVD decoders, high-speed serial bus interfaces (IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394) and others. About Zoran Corporation Zoran Corporation, based in Santa Clara, Calif., is a leading provider of digital solutions-on-a-chip for applications in the growing multimedia and consumer electronics markets. With almost two decades of expertise developing and delivering digital compression technologies, Zoran has pioneered high-performance processing into various audio, video, and imaging technologies. Zoran's proficiency in integration delivers major benefits for OEM customers, including greater capabilities within each product generation, reduced system costs, and shorter time to market. Zoran is a leading supplier in the rapidly expanding DVD and digital camera markets and in related digital audio and video applications. With headquarters in the U.S. and operations in Canada, China, Israel, Japan, and Taiwan, Zoran may be contacted on the World Wide Web at www.zoran.com or at 408/919-4111. Note to Editors: Zoran is a trademark of Zoran Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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