iDVD uses C-Cube. ESS selected for another line...........
idvdbox.com
ESS Technology, Inc. is a leading supplier of PC audio, digital video and communications semiconductor solutions for the PC and consumer markets. ESS designs, develops, and markets highly integrated mixed signal semiconductor and software solutions for multimedia applications.
iDVDBox, Inc. will be introducing ESS MPEG decoder as another line of DVD products.
C-Cube Microsystems is a leading supplier of silicon solutions for the compression, transmission, and decompression of digital video content to and throughout the home. C-Cube has the expertise in advanced algorithms, application-specific architectures, mixed-signal design, and systems solutions to the processing of multiple media types including video, audio, voice and internet data.
Presently, iDVDBox, Inc. is shipping in large volume of DVD players with C-Cube MPEG decoder.
National Semiconductor (NS) develops, manufactures, and sells a wide variety of analog intensive, mixed signal and other integrated circuits for applications in the communications, personal systems, consumer and industrial marketplace.
iDVDBox, Inc. is now ready to ship Interactive-Internet DVD player with the core processor from National Semiconductor. We will also be introducing our next generation of Interactive DVD player in Q4 2000.
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Tvia is included in the C-Cube box....................
dvdinsider.com
iDVDBox Incorporates Tvia’s Streaming Media Processor - 11/1/2000
Tvia, Inc. has revealed that iDVDBox, Inc., Boca Raton, Fla. is using Tvia's streaming media processing technology in its iDVDBox, an integrated Interactive-Internet, set-top box and DVD player.
iDVDBox plans to ship the DVD player by the end of 2000. Tvia's CyberPro 5005 streaming media processor enables iDVDBox to provide broadcast-quality video as well as high-performance graphics, audio, text, animation and Internet content to be displayed on to a television screen.
The easy-to-use iDVDBox Interactive-Internet DVD player allows consumers to surf the Internet, send e-mail, and enjoy the full capabilities of DVD and CD players, at a click of a button. For example, consumers will be able to watch a baseball game and monitor web content on the same screen at the same time. The iDVDBox supports HTML, JavaScript, Flash, SSL, as well as all major audio, video and graphics format, and provides advanced professional-grade surround sound capabilities and picture quality.
"Tvia's technology gives our DVD player the ability to intelligently and automatically make connections between DVD content and Web content and to dynamically deliver this enhanced information to a TV screen," said Steve Cavayero, president and CEO of iDVDBox. "Tvia is allowing us to offer consumers a new entertainment experience and a new simplicity in using the Internet. We anticipate sales of the iDVD player to contribute significantly to the company's revenue over the next 12 - 18 months."
"We are very pleased that iDVDBox selected our technology to help it create such an innovative product as the Interactive-Internet DVD player," said Vahe Akay, vice president of marketing, Tvia, Inc. "Through this single device, consumers have an easy way to explore the merging worlds of interactive TV, DVD media and the Internet." |
