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ESS DVD Chip Shipments Exceed One Million Units in Current Quarter
FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- ESS Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESST - news) today announced shipments of its Swan family of DVD chips exceeding one million units in the current quarter.
ESS's Swan DVD solutions, the ES4318 and ES4408FD, are designed to offer highly integrated and cost-effective DVD player solutions at the highest level of digital video and audio performance available in the consumer electronics industry today.
The ESS's Swan family of DVD products is based on a production-proven programmable multimedia processor (PMP) core architecture consisting of a 32-bit RISC CPU and a 64-bit DSP video processor engine. Key features include a built-in CPU for DVD navigation, MPEG-2 video & Dolby Digital decoding, sub-picture decoding, a content scrambling system (CSS), on screen display (OSD) processing, NTSC disc to PAL display (and vice versa) with SmartScale(TM), and Karaoke Processing. In addition, the Swan DVD solution also offers full DTS® decode, HDCD® decode, Dolby Prologic® backward compatibility, a 7-band digital audio equalizer, and Sensaura® speaker virtualization capabilities.
Due to performance and cost advantages, ESS's DVD solutions are widely adopted by many name brand OEM/ODM customers throughout the world.
``According to Cahner's In-Stat market research, ESS is currently the world's number one MPEG digital video solution supplier based on total units shipped,'' said Robert Blair, president and CEO of ESS Technology. ``DVD demand worldwide is growing rapidly and is expected to continue to grow at a significant rate for the next few years. With our DVD solution shipments exceeding the one million per quarter mark, we have significantly increased our share of the DVD market and further demonstrated our leadership overall digital video market. As DVD demand grows in the future, we expect to continue to grow both our DVD and overall digital video market share.''
About ESS Technology
ESS Technology, Inc., a leader in Internet, communications, PC audio and digital video, provides advanced products enabling the convergence of communications, computer, consumer, and Internet markets. ESS's subsidiary, Vialta, provides advanced, easy-to-use products and applications for the Internet. Products include multi-media appliances, applications and content for the Internet, which enable the user to experience new levels of entertainment and e-Commerce.
ESS, headquartered in Fremont, Calif., has R&D, sales and technical support offices worldwide. ESS Technology's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol ESST. ESS's Web site address is: esstech.com.
NOTE: The matters discussed in this news release include certain forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including, not limited to, the timely availability and acceptance of the Company's new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, the dependence on continued growth in demand for PC and consumer multimedia products, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in the SEC reports of ESS, including the reports on Form 10-K and Form 10Q. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
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