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TeraLogic's Janus Chip Brings All-Format Digital TV to Millions of PCs
Market Leader Hauppauge to Deliver Janus Digital TV PC Cards Based On
TeraLogic's Janus DTV Decoder
LOS ANGELES, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- TeraLogic, Inc., a leading developer
of technology solutions for digital video applications, today announced Janus,
the newest member of TeraLogic's family of digital television (DTV) products.
For a few hundred dollars, consumers will be able to view true high-definition
(HD) digital TV on their existing PC monitors. Janus is the PC industry's
first single-chip high-definition DTVPC decoder that is also capable of
up-converting analog cable broadcasts and DVD movies to HD video resolution.
TeraLogic also introduced the Janus DTVPC Reference Design, which will enable
PC add-in card manufacturers to deploy Janus-based DTVPC cards this year.
Leading manufacturers in the PC industry have already selected TeraLogic's
Janus chip to provide true high definition capabilities in their digital TV
offerings. PC TV tuner card leader Hauppauge (Nasdaq: HAUP) will announce
this month its plans for a Janus-based DTVPC card that will ship later this
year. In addition, leading graphics providers S3 (Nasdaq: SIII) and NVIDIA
(Nasdaq: NVDA) are cooperating with TeraLogic to offer premium-quality,
cost-effective DTVPC solutions.
Ken Plotkin, vice president of marketing at Hauppauge, commented,
"TeraLogic's Janus chip enables us to cost effectively combine HDTV, analog TV
and DVD playback on a single card. We believe that such a card can be
retailed for less than $300, making it an extremely viable purchase for
consumers and thus accelerating the penetration of HDTV on PCs."
"By giving consumers the opportunity to experience true, home-theater
quality digital television without spending thousands of dollars, low-cost
HDTV on PC solutions will raise tremendous awareness and interest for the
overall market," added Peng Ang, CEO and chairman of TeraLogic. "We are very
excited about partnering with market leaders like Hauppauge, which is now
positioned to deliver a compelling PC/DTV end product to the consumer."
About Janus
Janus is based on TeraLogic's proven TL850 HD decoder chip and is
specifically designed for the PC platform. With the Janus chip, PC video
board manufacturers can support three key multimedia functions on a single PC
board -- digital HDTV reception, legacy NTSC broadcast and cable, and DVD
playback.
TeraLogic's Janus is the PC industry's first chip capable of decoding and
displaying onto a PC all 18 ATSC digital TV formats, including true high
definition formats like 1080i and 720p. Also, the Janus's on-chip line
doubler and advanced video scaler can up-convert native NTSC and DVD
video-streams to HD video formats. Native NTSC (such as cable TV) and DVD
broadcasts display 150K pixels per frame. True HD displays one million pixels
per frame -- the same resolution available on most PC monitors. With
TeraLogic's single chip solution, only one PC card is needed for PC users to
receive high-quality, true HD signals. In addition, the Janus chip and card
can output to HDTV set monitors.
The highly integrated Janus chip effectively combines into one piece of
silicon an all-format DTV decoder (MPEG2 MP@HL), transport demultiplexer,
display processor (support for all PC VGA formats), 2D graphics and a PCI
interface. In addition, with its memory-efficient algorithm -- Advanced
Memory Reduction (AMR), the Janus enables OEMs to offer full HD decode with
only 8 MB SDRAM memory, compared to 16 MB required from other solutions.
"The superior digital video quality of TeraLogic's Janus chip provides a
perfect complement to our high-performance 3D graphics processors," said
Michael Hara, vice president of corporate marketing at NVIDIA. "By working
with HDTV technology leader TeraLogic, we can leverage each others technical
expertise and develop a truly optimal PC/DTV reference solution for consumer
platforms."
"As the consumer electronics industry moves rapidly toward the adoption of
digital television, S3 is working closely with companies such as TeraLogic to
ensure that the PC industry keeps pace," said Rick Bergman, vice president of
product marketing for S3 Incorporated. "Combining the strength of TeraLogic's
HDTV hardware with Savage4's advanced support for VIP 1.1 and high-quality
scaling capabilities, S3 and TeraLogic will offer a complete HDTV solution for
1999."
About the Janus Reference Platform
To expedite the development of Janus-based products, TeraLogic will offer
a reference design kit with the necessary components to develop a complete
DTVPC solution on a single card. The Janus Reference design incorporates a
dual tuner (for NTSC and HDTV broadcast), VSB demodulator, Janus HD decoder
and an NTSC decoder. TeraLogic's Janus Platform comes with schematics, Gerber
files and associated software drivers needed for development of a true HDTV
solution for the PC platform.
"Our research indicates the market for entertainment and multimedia PCs
will grow to over 60 million systems in 2002 and DTV will be a critical
component in such systems." said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of the market
research firm Jon Peddie Associates (Tiburon, CA). "In addition, over
20 million HD and DTVs are expected to be sold by then. TeraLogic is very
well-positioned to take a leadership role in the HDTV market space both on TV
and PC platforms with its HDTV solutions like the Janus Platform for OEMs."
Availability
The Janus chip and Janus Reference Design are now sampling to key PC TV
card manufacturers. TeraLogic's DTVPC solution will be demonstrated at WinHEC
in Los Angeles on April 6-9 at booths #215 (TeraLogic) and #909 (S3).
Demonstrations will also be available at the National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) show on April 19-22 in Las Vegas.
About Hauppauge Digital, Inc.
Hauppauge Digital, Inc. is the leading developer and manufacturer of
digital video TV and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers.
Through its Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. subsidiary, the Company designs and
manufactures digital video boards for TV-in-a-window, digital video editing
and video conferencing. The Company is headquartered in Hauppauge, New York,
with sales offices in Germany, London, Paris, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy,
Singapore and California. The Company's Internet Web site can be found at
hauppauge.com.
About TeraLogic, Inc.
Founded in 1996, TeraLogic, Inc. is a leading semiconductor venture
focused on providing critical technology to enable advances in the consumer
electronics market. The Company designs and develops integrated circuits
-- and provides reference designs -- for sale to leading consumer electronics
OEMs of advanced TVs, set-top boxes and PC-TV convergence products.
TeraLogic's ICs can be used both to provide enhanced digital capabilities to
existing TVs and as the basis for advanced, high-definition digital TV
systems. The Company is also a technology leader in JPEG2000, which is
developing the next-generation, world digital imaging standard.
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, TeraLogic currently has over
70 employees. More information about TeraLogic may be obtained by calling the
Company directly at 650-526-2000 or by visiting the Company's Website at
teralogic-inc.com.
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