ViXS Systems Announces Key Wireless Video Design Wins, Unveils New Consumer Video Capabilities at CES 2004
Wednesday January 7, 8:06 am ET
Company Teams With Leading Consumer Electronics Companies to Showcase Next-Generation Wireless Products for the Home
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- ViXS Systems (Booth #23274), the leading developer of wireless video networking chipsets and software, today announced several new partners and customers that have integrated ViXS' XCode II video processor and Matrix wireless chip into their next generation displays and media gateway products. The design wins include Arcadyan (Philips/Accton), Daewoo Electronics, Gemtek Technologies, Nexgen Mediatech (Chi-Mei Corporation) and Toshiba. Collectively, these deals highlight the critical need for highly efficient processing and encoding technologies that enable consumers to wirelessly send, display and record video to various devices over a standards-based 802.11 network.
"The fact that multiple manufacturers have selected our chipsets demonstrates confidence in our technology and its appeal to major consumer electronics manufacturers," said Sally Daub, CEO and president of ViXS Systems. "We have a proven, cost-effective approach to delivering high-quality video over a wireless home network. The commitment from these top-tier ODMs and OEMS signifies strong momentum behind bringing these advanced wireless video capabilities to the mass market."
ViXS will debut many of its new video networking technologies at the CES show in Las Vegas this week. Demonstration highlights at ViXS' booth include:
-- WIRELESS HDTV -- Illustrates wirelessly streaming of two simultaneous
high-definition (HD) video streams to plasma displays from a single
media center. This joint demonstration with Gemtek and Daewoo utilizes
ViXS' Matrix 802.11a wireless chip.
-- NETWORKED MOVIES -- Demonstrates transferring a two-hour movie in
10 minutes and quickly distributes that data to any networked display
device. This highlights ViXS' ability to quickly process, transfer and
store large volumes of video content over IP and play them on any
viewing device.
-- WIRELESS VIDEO NETWORKING -- Digital video content is wirelessly
transferred via 802.11g to various display devices including LCD TVs,
Webpads and PDAs. ViXS' highly flexible MPEG processing technology
conforms to the display and processing capabilities of many devices,
allowing consumers to view their favorite video content on a variety of
clients.
In addition, ViXS' chipset will be in use at multiple partner and customer booths at CES.
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