C-Cube intros new chip family............................
Saturday January 6, 7:30 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: C-Cube
C-Cube Announces DoMiNo(TM) - World's First Multi-Stream, Multi-Format Network Media Processor Architecture
Extends C-Cube's Leadership in Technology for the Networked Digital Home
CES2001 - Booth 1752, LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- C-Cube (Nasdaq: CUBE - news), the market leader in digital video processors, today unveiled the C-Cube DoMiNo(TM) Network Media Processor architecture, a highly integrated, flexible and powerful system-on-chip architecture combining audio-video (AV) processing with network connectivity. Customizable for a range of applications in the networked digital home entertainment market, C-Cube DoMiNo is designed to meet the requirements of today's hybrid analog-digital world as well as tomorrow's all-digital, connected environment. C-Cube's DoMiNo, a multi-stream, multi-format AV system codec architecture, leverages the company's legacy in digital media processing, extending it to new entertainment environments where broadband access and home networking will be the norm.
Michelle Abraham, senior industry analyst at Cahner's In-Stat, said, ``I believe the digital set-top box will be the home gateway for today's and tomorrow's home entertainment and information applications. Companies designing their products toward that vision will be the market leaders. The C-Cube DoMiNo architecture is going to enable professional quality products for the networked digital home that are priced for the retail market.''
For the first time, OEMs can cost-effectively integrate personal video recorder (PVR) functions such as pause, rewind, or command slow motion or fast forward with live TV, into interactive digital set-top boxes (STBs) while maintaining attractive retail-level pricing.
With C-Cube DoMiNo, DVD recorders will replace the analog VCR and provide consumers with a variety of options not available today. These will include watching a DVD movie while recording a TV program, converting music from CD audio to MP3 format for listening on the go, or editing a home video using a digital camcorder, archive it onto DVD and send it to friends and family via MPEG streaming capabilities.
``C-Cube DoMiNo will be the catalyst for the next wave of home entertainment devices such as recordable DVDs and personal video recorders, as well as connectivity between them,'' said Umesh Padval, president and CEO of C-Cube. ``We have significantly raised the bar with a technology that will enable consumers to distribute audio and video over a home network, thus making the networked digital home a reality in the very near future.''
Empowering the Next Wave of Consumer DVD & STB Products
DoMiNo, a coined name using the initials from Digital (such as HDTV, SDTV, DVD, MPEG-4, MP3), Media (such as video, audio, voice, data) and Networks (such as satellite, cable, DSL, IEEE1394, HomePNA, wireless LANs), will open the door to the next wave of consumer DVD and set-top box products. This architecture enables C-Cube and its customers to expand into emerging markets such as DVD recorders, PVRs, interactive digital STBs, broadband Internet-centric AV equipment, home media gateways and home media servers. In a single, flexible design, C-Cube DoMiNo provides the highest display quality, encoding, decoding, transcoding, transrating, AV streaming, digital rights management, copy protection, and AV network connectivity. C-Cube DoMiNo gives consumers the freedom to view or listen to digital content in the format best suited for a particular device or situation. The streaming AV capability, in combination with the integrated transport stream demultiplexers and other broadband network interfaces, support interactive television and video-on-demand applications over broadband cable, satellite or DSL (digital subscriber line). Its integrated IEEE1394 interface enables simple networking with other consumer electronic devices.
At the heart of the C-Cube DoMiNo architecture are the powerful, full-duplex, multi-stream AV codec and integrated transport stream and IEEE1394 network interfaces. C-Cube DoMiNo's ability to transcode between different AV formats and transrate between different bit rates, gives consumers the freedom to view or listen to digital content in the format best suited for a particular device or situation.
Availability
Chips based on the C-Cube DoMiNo architecture will be introduced during this year, and the first consumer products based on this technology are expected to reach the market as early as the fourth quarter of 2001.
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, California, 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 |
