Press Release Source: Wind River
Wind River Showcases Real World Digital Video Solutions for the Consumer Electronics Industry at CES 2004
Thursday January 8, 7:50 am ET
ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2004--Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND - News):
Wind River and Leading Consumer Electronics Manufacturers
Pave the Road to a Connected World
Synopsis:
Wind River's digital video and digital imaging solutions help manufacturers quickly and cost-effectively build devices from digital set-top boxes to broadband-enabled multimedia gateways, digital cameras to imaging devices, saving time to market and increasing competitive advantage.
Products from BuenaVista, Philips and others on display in the Wind River meeting room.
Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND - News), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, will illustrate its leadership in the digital consumer market (set top boxes, digital TVs, digital imaging solutions and other video entertainment devices) by showcasing its leading embedded technologies for consumer devices and demonstrating recent customer project successes at the Consumer Electronics Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center January 8 - 11 in the South Hall Meeting Room #20747.
The digital video and digital imaging markets are growing rapidly as interest in interactive programming and feature-rich digital transmission increases. As a leading provider of embedded solutions for the consumer electronics industry, Wind River's digital video and digital imaging solutions can help manufacturers quickly and cost-effectively build devices from digital set-top boxes to digital cameras and imaging devices, saving time to market and increasing competitive advantage. Today, the majority of the world's leading digital device manufacturers (including Philips, Samsung, Motorola and others) globally use Wind River's award-winning integrated embedded Platform for Consumer Devices, technology or services to develop innovative products that are paving the way to an increasingly connected world.
"Wind River's expertise in the digital consumer market made the company an obvious choice to work with on our Nexperia Home semiconductor system solutions," said Pieter Noordam, vice president of Consumer Systems Business Development, Philips Semiconductors. "The company's Platform for Consumer Devices provided a unique, integrated approach to product development, which helped us quickly and cost-effectively create a powerful digital video Software Development Kit. We're very pleased with the success we've had working with Wind River."
Wind River will be showcasing its market-leading technologies and the following customer products in the South Hall Meeting Room #20747:
Revealing a new digital video reference design for Philips Nexperia Home Family of System-on-Chip Platform. The platform targets digital video devices, set-top boxes and DTV.
Showcasing a state-of-the-art streaming video set-top box developed by Wind River Professional Services which was recently deployed by Disney/Buena Vista for its Movie Beam video-on-demand service.
Demonstrating HAT/SAT tools for Linux-based consumer electronics devices.
"Wind River continues to set the standard for embedded software solutions in the consumer electronics industry," said Dave Fraser, senior vice president of products for Wind River. "By providing extremely reliable development environments, tools and professional services, Wind River is enabling our customers to focus less on the underlying embedded technologies and more on creating innovative new features in their products. It is that innovation that is taking consumers one step closer to a truly connected world."
For further information or to schedule a briefing at the event, please visit www.windriver.com or call Jessica Schieve at 510-541-6966. |
