NewCom Selects Sigma Designs for DVD Upgrade Kit; Leading Upgrade Kit
Manufacturer Selects Sigma Design's DVD Decoder Board for Introduction
This Holiday Season
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11/18/97
Business Wire
(Copyright (c) 1997, Business Wire)
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LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1997--Sigma Designs, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIGM), today announced that NewCom, a leading supplier of upgrade peripherals to the retail channel, has chosen Sigma's playback card for its DVD -ROM Upgrade Kit.
NewCom's new kit includes all of the hardware and software required to play DVD -Video, DVD -ROM and all popular CD formats. The complete and comprehensive kit is being introduced in time for the Christmas and holiday season.
Developed as a complete DVD solution for multimedia and entertainment applications, the NewCom upgrade kit offers users a perfect balance of outstanding data storage capacity, spectacular video and crystal clear audio. The kit supports all popular CD formats, including audio CD, CD-ROM, CD-Recordable and Cd-reWritable in addition to DVD -Video and DVD -ROM disks that, in the future, will store up to 17 gigabytes of data.
"Our goal was to create an attractive DVD kit that would produce video and audio of outstanding quality and complement the rest of our product line," commented Asif Khan, Executive Vice President at NewCom. "We selected Sigma's DVD /MPEG-2 decoder because it meets our objectives and because of their reputation and experience."
"We are delighted that after an extensive evaluation NewCom selected our card for their DVD kit," added Prem Talreja, Vice President of Marketing at Sigma Designs. "NewCom has an impressive presence in the retail channel and we believe the DVD kit will complement their marketing efforts this holiday season."
Available as an OEM product, Sigma's DVD playback card turns a PC into a full-featured DVD player that fully exploits all of the spectacular digital video and digital surround sound capabilities of the DVD format and upcoming MPEG-2 interactive titles. The card displays flicker-free video at full-screen resolution, making video-watching on a PC truly a new and rich experience.
The DVD card includes an easy-to-use program, DVD Station, for DVD navigation and control. With DVD Station, PC users can take full advantage of every interactive DVD feature, using simple VCR-like controls to choose soundtrack and subtitle language, select viewing aspect ratios, and change viewing angles. The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate. Users can also interact with DVD Station menus to exercise parental control and execute search commands.
Sigma's card works with any standard 133 MHz system without requiring any specialized hardware, except the DVD -ROM drive and fully complies with the DVD specifications. This makes it the ideal choice for PC manufacturers and DVD upgrade kit providers. The selection by NewCom is the latest in a series of design wins for Sigma's DVD card. |
