HDCD Now Available in Zoran's Vaddis III DVD Decoder and Audio DSP ICs; ICs Enable OEMs To Add HDCD To DVD Players and A/V Receivers
01/08/99
Business Wire
(Copyright (c) 1999, Business Wire)
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1999--At the 1999 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Pacific Microsonics announced today that Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq:ZRAN), a leading provider of integrated circuits and software for digital video and audio, has added Pacific Microsonics' HDCD decoding and HDCD precision filtering to Zoran's Vaddis III(tm) DVD audio/video decoder and their new ZR38601 and ZR38650 digital audio processor ICs.
"We are very excited to be working with Zoran because these ICs provide a very important solution for our customers," said Andy Johnson, Vice President of Marketing for Pacific Microsonics. "Many of our customers who are manufacturing HDCD-equipped CD players are planning to feature HDCD in DVD players and A/V receivers. These industry leading ICs from Zoran provide a high-performance, cost-effective solution for these product categories."
With the HDCD Vaddis III IC, DVD player manufacturers can now offer consumers a product which is both a high quality DVD-video player and a high quality HDCD audio CD player. Decoding HDCD encoded CDs produces true 20-bit dynamic range and resolution from the 16-bit CD format and HDCD precision filtering significantly improves the sound quality of conventional CDs.
Integrating HDCD in the Vaddis III, which also contains MPEG video decoding, Dolby Digital audio decoding, and 3D virtual sound, enables consumer electronics manufacturers to easily add HDCD capability to DVD players without adding additional, dedicated HDCD circuitry.
"We are most pleased to be the first DVD Decoder IC manufacturer to offer the sonic benefits of HDCD and to also be able to include HDCD in our Silicon Software(tm) library of advanced audio algorithms for our new ZR38601 and ZR38650 digital audio processors," said Paul Goldberg, Vice President of Audio Products for Zoran. "Adding HDCD to the Vaddis' existing high quality audio and video feature set enables Zoran to provide its customers the highest valued-added, single chip DVD solution in the industry. While providing HDCD for use with our new ZR38601 and ZR38650 digital audio processor ICs allows Digital A/V receiver and Digital Surround Sound speaker manufacturers to include this important audio standard in their products, with no extra hardware cost."
Zoran expects to begin shipping the Zoran platform versions of HDCD in March 1999. |
