Denon Selects Analog Devices' Signal Processing Technology to Power World's First DTS-ES Extended Surround(TM) A/V Receiver
- New Melody decoder, data converters and SHARC(R) DSPs enable highest performance audio signal processing.
NEW YORK, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI - news) today announced that the Denon AVR-5800, the world's first A/V receiver to offer the DTS-ES Extended Surround(TM) digital entertainment audio standard, incorporates high performance signal processing components developed by Analog Devices, and embedded solutions developed in conjunction with Denon and DTS. The AVR-5800 receiver integrates Analog Devices' Melody(TM) DTS-ES Extended Surround decoder, also announced today, running on the 32-bit SHARC DSP, and the industry's highest performance audio DAC, the 192-kHz AD1853. The Denon AVR-5800 uses Melody DTS-ES Extended Surround decoders for end-to-end 32-bit digital audio decoding and is the first A/V receiver with these decoders. Analog Devices' AD1853 DACs help maintain true 24-bit/192-kHz digital output capability, to provide the highest possible resolution for all surround sound movie and music formats.
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``Denon has used Analog Devices' audio DACs, DSPs and decoders for several years,'' said David-Birch Jones, Marketing Manager, Denon Electronics. ``Our new flagship AVR-5800 Surround Receiver requires the programmable nature of Analog Devices' high performance signal processing technology to become the first receiver that offers DTS-ES Extended Surround decoding.''
The digital entertainment market represents an estimated $4 billion dollars in annual sales of data converters, DSPs and analog circuits used in high performance audio/video applications, according to WSTS. These applications include high end audio/video receivers, digital still cameras, camcorders, DVD players, LCD monitors, and scanners. In many of these applications, Analog Devices is the market share leader, with core technologies to enable continued leadership and customer innovations.
About the Melody DTS-ES Extended Surround Decoder
The Melody DTS-ES Extended Surround Decoder decodes and post-processes soundtracks encoded with the leading digital audio formats: DTS-ES Extended Surround (including both DTS-ES© Discrete 6.1 and DTS-ES Matrix 6.1), DTS Neo:6(TM), Dolby© Digital and Dolby© Pro Logic©, THX(TM) and THX Surround EX(TM) and Stereo. The Melody decoder integrates the industry's highest-performance audio DAC, the AD1853, which features 24-bit resolution, 192-kHz sampling rate, 120 dB SNR/DNR, -107 dB THD+N and 115 dB Stopband Attenuation.
About Denon
Denon Electronics is Japan's oldest audio company. Founded 90 years ago, the company has a long history of technical innovations, including the development and first commercialization of PCM digital audio.
About Analog Devices
With revenues of $1.1 billion for the first half of fiscal 2000, Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. Headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, the company employs approximately 8,200 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines and Taiwan. Analog Devices' stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the company is included in the S&P 500 Index.
Note: SHARC is a registered trademark and Melody is a trademark of Analog Devices, Inc.
DTS is a registered trademark and DTS-ES Extended Surround, DTS-ES and DTS Neo:6 are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
``Dolby,'' the double-D symbols and ``Pro Logic'' are registered trademarks and Surround EX is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation.
Surround EX is a jointly developed technology of THX and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. THX is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd.
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