Here is the proof of why they are upping their guidance for the 2nd Q. Wins Sony set-top for Europe:
C-Cube Wins in Sony's Set-top Box for Canal+Satellite Pay TV Deployment
MILPITAS, Calif., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- C-Cube Microsystems (Nasdaq: CUBE - news) today announced Sony's (NYSE: SNE - news) selection of C-Cube's AViA@TV® silicon for a new generation of satellite television digital set-top boxes to be deployed by Canal+, Europe's largest pay TV provider.
``We are delighted that Sony chose C-Cube for its new MediaSat(TM) box for the Canal+ deployment,'' said Umesh Padval, C-Cube president and CEO. ``We look forward to extending our relationship with Sony to help develop its next-generation set-top boxes.''
The MediaSat boxes, which have passed compliance testing, will begin shipping in November. To date, Canal+ has deployed more than 4 million of the digital multimedia set-tops in Europe for its 13 million pay TV subscribers, most still users of analog set-tops as Canal+ continues to expand deployments of digital models.
``We turned to C-Cube because its AViA@TV set-top silicon delivers the advanced capabilities Canal+ needs to deliver content-rich interactive applications as it grows its base of satellite television subscribers using multimedia digital set-top boxes,'' said Yoshi Yanagimoto, vice president of Sony Network Entertainment Europe. ``The solution's integrated graphics and high performance CPU enables our product to deliver the most advanced solution on the market.''
Among other advanced capabilities, the AViA@TV's embedded high-performance CPU and multi-plane graphics provide easy user interfaces and allow Web content to be displayed on television.
``The Sony platform, based on the C-Cube chipset, has proven itself to be a technically superior solution and we are delighted to be able to offer it to our subscribers,'' said Jean-Francois Fremaux, vice president of Technology for the CANAL+ Group.
C-Cube's AViA@TV MPEG-2 decoder offers the following advanced features:
* High performance programmable transport demultiplexer
* Integrated 100-MHz microSPARC(TM) CPU with 8K/2K cache
* High-performance graphics engine with:
-- Flicker Filter(TM) for the display of web content on television
-- Seven planes for rich graphical interfaces
-- 24-bit true color
-- 128-levels of alpha blending
-- Hardware Blitter and Copy Engine
* Multiple peripheral I/O interfaces: EMV 96 compliant SmartCard, 1284,
IR, UARTs
* DVB and DES descrambler
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, Calif., and has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit the company's 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.
SOURCE: C-Cube Microsystems
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