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To: BillyG who wrote (48530)	2/2/2000 10:19:00 AM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Zoran's Digital Camera Processor IC Powers Samsung Cameras biz.yahoo.com Wednesday February 2, 6:35 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Zoran's Digital Camera Processor IC Powers Samsung Cameras Samsung Introduces Two COACH-Based Megapixel Cameras at the PMA Show Starting Today LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000--Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq:ZRAN - news), a leading provider of integrated circuits (ICs) and embedded software for digital video and audio applications enabled by compression, announced today that two Megapixel cameras, based on Zoran's COACH digital camera processor, will be presented by Samsung during PMA, the Photo Marketing Association International Convention & Trade Show. At the show, Samsung will feature 1.3M and 2.1M pixel zoom lens COACH-powered cameras. Both cameras will be shipping early summer, 2000. ``The point and shoot digital camera segment is one of the most rapidly growing digital camera segments. Camera resolutions are increasing steadily as prices are dropping quickly, we have already seen the introduction of 3 Million Pixel resolution cameras under the $1,000 price point,' said Kevin Kane, analyst at IDC. ``IDC expects almost 22 million point and shoot digital cameras to ship worldwide by 2003, up from 4.6 million shipments in 1999.' Zoran Corporation Vice President of Marketing, Video Products, Dr. Shmuel Farkash, said, ``We are very proud that Samsung is utilizing the COACH in its new line of digital cameras. The features and quality of Samsung's new cameras are of the highest caliber. The click-to-click time for Samsung's new cameras, for instance, is just 1.5 seconds, out-speeding all other digital cameras of the same resolution category. We are honored to be associated with such products.' ABOUT COACH Leveraging on Zoran's renowned JPEG products, Zoran is addressing the evolving digital camera market with the Camera On A Chip (COACH) processor IC. Centered on a powerful DSP core, the COACH contains all the necessary hardware and software elements for a complete digital camera solution. The COACH architecture is flexible enough to support a wide range of camera designs and the high integration level allows for cost effective, power efficient cameras. Among the unique COACH features: -- Real-time high quality picture capture as fast as 1.5 seconds per Megapixel resolution -- Movie capture (Video and audio) into the Flash memory card -- PC camera functionality with 30 frames per second across the USB -- MP3 audio clip download and playback (Stereo) -- Direct Internet Photo-Community connectivity via PC. ABOUT ZORAN Zoran Corporation develops and markets software, integrated circuits (ICs) and IC Intellectual Property (IP) cores for digital audio and video applications enabled by compression. Zoran also provides complete reference designs based on Zoran's technology. Zoran's product lines and IP include JPEG codecs, MPEG and DVD decoders, digital audio processors and real-time DVD software for PCs. All these standard-based products benefit from Zoran's Standard Plus(TM) technology. Zoran's ICs are used in numerous digital audio and video products. Leading applications incorporating Zoran's products and IP include professional and consumer video editing systems, filmless digital cameras, standalone and PC-based DVD players, SuperVCD players, digital speakers and audio systems. Zoran is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with additional operations in Haifa, Israel, Toronto, Canada and offices in Tokyo, Japan and Shenzhen, China. For more information about Zoran call 408/919-4111, or visit our website: www.zoran.com.

To: BillyG who wrote (48530)	2/2/2000 9:08:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Kirch uses C-Cube boxes. Nokia uses C-Cube chips in their boxes, BSkyB boxes are still mostly SGS Thomson........... 206.168.114.205 A News Corp./BSkyB/Nokia Connection? News Corp. is in serious talks with the world's largest cellular phone manufacturer about a possible business connection that could involve its European gem, British Sky Broadcasting. Finland's Nokia confirmed this week that it has held "exploratory discussions with News Corp. about how a content provider and a telecoms equipment manufacturer could cooperate." Speculation is that any partnership with the Scandinavian cellular phone giant will involve BSkyB, which is expanding into continental Europe. American Depositary Receipts for BSkyB, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, continued their meteoric climb Wednesday, closing up $3 to $145. In other BSkyB developments, the European Commission has asked the satellite/programmer for more information surrounding its planned $1.44 billion deal with Kirch Group's digital pay-TV service. The request delayed this week's hearing on the matter. BSkyB is planning to purchase a quarter of the KirchPayTV service based in Germany.

To: BillyG who wrote (48530)	2/3/2000 8:37:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Lucent's DWDM research............................... eet.com DWDM uses individual segments of the optical spectrum to multiplex signals on a fiber. The idea is recent, considered at first to be a laboratory curiosity since practical systems were already multiplexing channels with a time-division technique. Such synchronous optical networks (Sonet) had been able to extend the capacity of optical fiber and were a welcome development. The wavelength-division multiplexing route has turned out to have far more potential: Bell Labs researchers recently demonstrated a DWDM transmission system capable of sending a terabit of data per second down a fiber. "That represents the entire world's Internet on a single glass fiber," Glass said. The DWDM revolution has been extremely swift. When Lucent Technologies was established, DWDM was still at the laboratory demonstration stage. While the idea is simple, turning it into practical optical communications systems required a multifaceted development. Multiple-wavelength laser-diode systems and new types of fiber able to carry the multiple wavelength signals without crosstalk had to be developed. And some means of collectively amplifying multiwavelength signals had to be invented. While those problems were effectively solved in a short time, it wasn't easy. Indeed, one outstanding problem has never been solved: how to regenerate multiple wavelength signals.