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Toshiba's DVD and Personal Video Recorder Combo Product Designed Around C-Cube's MPEG-2 Codec
MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000--
Close Technical Collaboration Between Toshiba and C-Cube Results
In an Innovative Product With the Industry's Highest Video Quality
C-Cube Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:CUBE) today announced that consumer electronics giant Toshiba Corporation has chosen C-Cube's DVxplore(R) MPEG-2 video codec as a key component in their RD-2000, a newly announced combination hard-disk drive (HDD) and DVD-RAM recorder product. Toshiba's RD-2000 enables consumers to time-shift television, record DVDs, and play back DVD videos in a single product.
DVxplore is C-Cube's first consumer MPEG-2 codec product, providing the highest quality video together with a superior feature set optimized for HDD and DVD-RAM recording. DVxplore is based on C-Cube's patented fourth generation MPEG-2 codec technology, and, together with DVxcel(R) are the only true MPEG-2 video codecs shipping in the market today.
"We are excited that Toshiba has chosen to work closely with C-Cube and design our DVxplore codec into their first generation combination PVR and DVD recorder product," said Patrick Henry, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development at C-Cube. "Toshiba is an acknowledged leader in DVD, and we are delighted that we are a key supplier to Toshiba for their flagship personal video recorder and DVD product."
About Toshiba's RD-2000
Toshiba's RD-2000 HDD and DVD video recorder includes both a 30GB HDD and a DVD-RAM drive providing a combined record capacity of up to 33 hours. The RD-2000 includes a number of innovative features such as one-touch record start, playback list, record navigation, thumbnails and title list support, manual selection of record picture quality level from 2.0-9.8Mbps, and easy viewing of TV program guide information. Users can create DVD libraries with chapters, perform easy scene cutting, fast searching, custom disk recording, and play list generation. Other features include an advanced user interface, one-touch commercial skip function, preview of disk contents, integrated tuner, and DVD-Video, DVD-RAM, VCD and CD-DA playback.
RD-2000 DVD-RAM Specifics
Playback media: DVD-RAM (4.7GB single-sided, 9.4GB double-sided),
DVD-Video, VCD, CD-DA
Record media: DVD-RAM (4.7GB single-sided, 9.4GB double-sided)
Video format: MPEG-2
Audio format: Dolby Digital CE (2 channel), Linear PCM
RD-2000 Record Times DVD-RAM HDD
Standard mode: 2 hours 12 hours
Long-record mode: 4 hours 26.5 hours
About DVxplore
C-Cube's DVxplore MPEG-2 video codec is a high-quality single-chip digital video processing solution ideal for consumer digital recordable products. Features include:
-- Realtime MPEG-2 ML@MP video and system encoding
-- Simultaneous encode and decode of MPEG-2 video streams with
audio synchronization
-- Single-pass, variable bitrate (VBR) and constant bitrate (CBR)
encoding
-- Multiple, programmable horizontal resolutions
-- On-chip program stream multiplexing of compressed or
uncompressed audio
-- On-chip DVD-VR Real-Time Read/Write (RTRW) system level
formatting
Availability
Toshiba has announced that the RD-2000 will be available in December in Japan.
About C-Cube
The company is a worldwide leader in digital media processing and is leading the way with new communication processors and networked consumer products. With a focus on DVD, set-top boxes and codec enabled products, C-Cube is driving the technology for the "networked digital home."
C-Cube is headquartered in Milpitas and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information please visit our web site at www.c-cube.com. C-Cube and the C-Cube logo are registered trademarks of C-Cube Microsystems Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT:
C-Cube Microsystems Inc.
Wendy Matthews, 408/490-8707 (Corporate Communications)
wendy.matthews@c-cube.com
Steven Horwitz, 408/490-8561 (Investor Relations)
steven.horwitz@c-cube.com
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