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To: coopie who wrote (26298)	12/8/1997 8:16:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

Hi coopie, Mondays are made for CUBE! Nice re-orginization at CUBE............... C-Cube has combined the system-level settop expertise formerly at its wholly owned subsidiary, DiviCom Inc., with C-Cube's digital video silicon developments to form C-Cube's Consumer Network Products Division (CNP). This new division focuses on the revenue-generating digital video applications that drive digital networks worldwide. By offering settop manufacturers and content providers multi-tiered silicon and design solutions, C-Cube's CNP Division can help companies such as Zenith and Americast partners to effectively address complex consumer network applications. "By integrating 'best of breed' technologies from C-Cube and others into our line of advanced broadband digital settop and network products, we're helping our customers usher in the digital age," said Allen Brown, division vice president of the Zenith Network Systems Digital Media Group. "Close collaboration, cooperation and teamwork over the past 12 months have been essential to support the November launch of the new Bell South all-digital entertainment service." "This deployment is a key milestone in the market's movement from analog-to-digital networks," said Nai Ting Hsu, vice president and general manager of C-Cube's CNP Division. "Our ability to offer content-rich solutions and multiple third-party applications provides settop manufacturers and service providers with a means of adding value to the consumer experience. Flare is an excellent example of how C-Cube can minimize the complexity and reduce the overall system costs associated with implementing such advanced settop applications." With the advanced graphics capabilities of C-Cube's AViA-GTX and C-Cube's unique understanding of digital systems, Americast can offer unique consumer-friendly features through Zenith's digital settop boxes. C-Cube's Flare design allows Zenith to produce a modular settop box design to cost-effectively interface with multiple networks, including MMDS, HFC, DBS and FTTC. Now we're talking!!

To: coopie who wrote (26298)	12/8/1997 8:25:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Another "hardware assist" crutch for Zoran's SoftDVD................ Rendition's V2200 Powers Zoran SoftDVD Video Player; Built In Motion Compensation Acceleration In V2200 Brings Full Feature DVD Functionality to Mass Market Consumers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1997-- Rendition, Inc., a leading developer and supplier of high performance graphic processors, today announced that the V2200 integrated 2D/ 3D and video graphics processor will provide full motion compensation acceleration support for Zoran Corporation's SoftDVD software application. Rendition's V2200 support of SoftDVD will bring the full capability of DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) playback of movies, games and other 3D applications to the mainstream PC user through leading graphics card and PC motherboard manufacturers. Zoran has implemented DVD, a high density CD standard for storing and playing digital movies and PC games in a software product called SoftDVD. The video component of DVD is MPEG-2, which generates higher quality video while requiring less storage than previous technologies. One side of a DVD disc can easily store a high-quality feature length film. Rendition has developed a new graphics and video processor, the V2200, which accelerates the MPEG-2 video decoding function called "motion compensation." When powered by Rendition's V2200, PC's utilizing Zoran's SoftDVD dramatically increase video performance, saving PC processor bandwidth for computational tasks. When using Rendition's motion compensation hardware with Zoran's SoftDVD, video frame rate performance improves 15% to 30% over an all-software solution. "DVD has significant potential to become an important entertainment vehicle," said Mike Boich, president and CEO for Rendition. "The combination of low cost media and outstanding video quality will make DVD a compelling technology for a very broad spectrum of users. Low cost graphics/video processors such as our V2200 will further drive the popularity of this technology by bringing its acquisition cost within reach of virtually any PC user." The V2200 utilizes a unique RISC based architecture developed by Rendition to deliver industry-leading performance with significantly less complex circuitry than any other graphics processor available today. The broad scalability of the V2200 architecture enables personal computer and add-on board manufacturers the ability to provide, from a single base design, a wide range of product solutions at various price/performance levels not previously offered to the consumer, including a configuration which recently set new 3D performance records. With its single chip design and support for the Intel Advanced Graphics Port (AGP) standard, the V2200 is ideally suited for both business and consumer applications. Note to Editors: Rendition is a registered trademark and Rendition Ready are trademarks of Rendition, Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized as such. CONTACT: A&R Partners Carolyn Federman, 415/363-0982 ext. 223 carolyn_federman@arpartners.com or Elizabeth Conrady, 415/363-0982 ext. 217 elizabeth_conrady@arpartners.com