RAVISENT Teams With Matrox to Deliver High-Performance Video Graphics Solution
MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 19, 1999--
RAVISENT's Award-Winning Software CineMaster 98(TM) Enables
DVD Playback in the Matrox Millennium G400 Series
RAVISENT Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:RVST), a developer of core-based modular software solutions that enable digital video and audio stream management, today announced an alliance with Matrox, a Montreal-based graphics chip designer and card manufacturer.
Under the agreement, Matrox has selected RAVISENT's award-winning Software CineMaster(TM) DVD decoder to power its Matrox Software DVD Player, bundled with the Matrox Millennium G400 Series graphics cards.
"This deal with Matrox represents RAVISENT's expansion into the video graphics card market. By customizing our Software CineMaster to any digital video application, our solution is continually evolving to meet the needs of PC and consumer electronics manufacturers," said Ed Piehl, director of marketing, RAVISENT. "By teaming with Matrox to offer DVD playback functionality on a video graphics card, we're achieving our goal of providing exceptional playback performance for business and home users who want to view the sharpest images on their monitors."
"We are very pleased to add RAVISENT's DVD software to our product offering," said Dan Wood, Senior Product Manager, Matrox Graphics Inc. "In addition to providing unparalleled image quality, the Matrox Software DVD Player has been optimized for Matrox's unique DualHead Display feature. This allows users to take advantage of DualHead DVDMax mode to watch a high quality DVD title full-screen on TV while leaving a fully accessible Windows desktop on the monitor."
About the Matrox Millennium G400 Series
A dramatically different high-performance graphics solution, the Matrox Millennium G400 Series converges industry-leading performance, unparalleled image quality and a cutting-edge feature set. Designed to satisfy the most demanding business and home users, these 2D, 3D, video, TV-Out and dual display graphics boards feature Matrox's revolutionary DualHead Display technology, built-in support for Microsoft's DirectX 6 Environment Mapped Bump Mapping and Matrox's trademark Vibrant Color Quality2 (VCQ2) rendering. The Matrox Millennium G400 Series is equipped with a 3D rendering engine that achieves amazingly fast single-pass multi-texturing with 32-bit rendering, 32-bit textures, 32-bit Z-buffer with 8-bit stencil, and full AGP texturing. Offering added value, each graphics board in this series bundles the Matrox Software DVD player, MicroGrafx's Simply 3D 3 and Picture Publisher 8, as well as a hot 3D game, Expendable from Rage Software, which showcases Environment Mapped Bump Mapping. Based on the Matrox G400 chip, the Matrox Millennium G400 is fitted with a fixed 16 or 32MB of high-bandwidth SGRAM, as well as a 300MHz UltraSharp DAC for crisp, photorealistic displays. Based on the Matrox G400 MAX chip, the Matrox Millennium G400 MAX is fitted with a fixed 32MB of SGRAM, features a 360MHz UltraSharp DAC and benefits from a 30 per cent increase in raw speed over the Matrox Millennium G400.
About Software CineMaster 98(TM)
Currently shipping on systems from 8 of the top 10 PC OEMs nationwide, Software CineMaster 98 was developed using Ravisent's object-oriented, modular design architecture, extending the Ravisent look and feel for DVD playback. This application shares the software core of Ravisent's Hardware CineMaster 98 DVD solutions currently used by leading PC manufacturers. Ravisent's Software CineMaster 98 is a high-performance software DVD and MPEG-2 decoding solution designed to decode and playback DVD-Video, MPEG Video and Broadcast MPEG Video content on PCs.
About RAVISENT Technologies Inc.
RAVISENT is driving the digital entertainment revolution with an integrated suite of innovative digital video and audio products for PC and consumer electronics manufacturers. RAVISENT enables the convergence of personal computer and consumer electronics devices through software and hardware products designed around a unique, modular software architecture that provides a consistent look and feel across technology platforms. Combining outstanding on-screen quality with high overall system performance and integration, RAVISENT provides flexible and cost-effective solutions to a spectrum of partners in the PC-OEM, CE-OEM and semiconductor markets, including Compaq, Dell Computer, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Packard Bell/NEC, Acer, Fujitsu, Micron, Quantex, Sony, ATI Technologies, C-Cube, and ST Microelectronics. Founded in 1994, RAVISENT is headquartered in Pennsylvania and has offices in the Silicon Valley, Seattle, Germany and Japan. Information about RAVISENT can be found on the World Wide Web at www.RAVISENT.com.
All companies and product names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements that relate to Ravisent's future business and financial performance. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual events of future results to differ from those discussed herein. Such factors include, among others: Ravisent's recent change in its business model, its limited operating history, fluctuating quarterly operating results, expectation of future losses, anticipated price declines in products, dependence on its CineMaster products, dependence on a small number of customers, lack of long-term commitments with customers, dependence on manufacturers and strategic relationships, product delays, the difficulty of protecting proprietary rights, the ability to manage growth and attract and retain additional personnel, the potential for defects in its products, risks from international operations, its ability to raise capital in the future, its dependence on the personal computer and consumer electronics industries, competition, its ability to manage technological change and respond to evolving industry standards, government regulation and Year 2000 software issues.
Note to Editors: In the product name "Vibrant Color Quality2 (VCQ2)", the "2" is superscript.
CONTACT:
Ravisent, Inc.
Lori Crenny, 610/408-7494
lcrenny@ravisent.com
or
Miller/Shandwick Technologies
Kelley MacMaster, 650/596-5831
kmacmaster@miller.shandwick.com
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