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Technology Stocks : Genesis Microchip (GNSS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Ox who wrote (1276)	1/2/2008 11:59:14 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 1277

Thanks. I have had several Digital picture frames in my hand. I ordered a Viewsonic that had a great display and so so programming. It arrived too late for our early Christmas so I bought a Kodak which had a very good display. A coworker bought the Viewsonic for his wife. I was given a Ativa with a so so display but great programming. Interestingly my neighbor bought a Panasonic frame that was a dead ringer for the Ativa but the display looked brighter. I have not followed GNSS lately, but the controllers to translate image sizes seemed right down their alley and maybe STM is selling millions of the chips at bargain prices. Full disclosure: I made some money holding and flipping GNSS a few years back. I even sold at a loss once when I needed write offs. This is the product description from the Taiwanese company that made the controller for the frame you linked to: Item No. : MP612 Product Name : Multimedia Playback controller Description : The MP612 incorporates a high performance JPEG CODEC. It can JPEG decoding at speed as high as 48M-pixel/sec. The MP612 also has an embedded Hardwired MPEG-1/MPEG-4 decoder which performs MPEG-1/MPEG-4 decoding up to 30 frame/second at VGA (640x480) resolution up to Advance Simple Profile Level 5. For audio, the MP612 performs various audio processing to provide rich audio features, such as MP3 decoding, AAC decoding , MPEG-1 Layer I,II decoding by hardwired and AMR decoding/recording by software. Storage interfaces are incorporated in the MP612 to connect to storage devices, such as Compact Flash Card, Smart Media Card, Memory Stick Card, Memory Stick Pro Card, SD Card, MMC 4.0/3.2 , xD-Picture Card 1.0/1.1,Micro Drive, as well as Hard Disk Drives (Support Ultra-DMA66/PIO modes). The MP612 support both USB2.0 device and 1.1 host controller. magicpixel.com.tw It is translated into something much closer to English than Engrish.