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Technology Stocks : Sigma Designs- Up 50% per Month- Why? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PHarris who wrote (677)	4/19/1999 6:01:00 PM
From: PHarris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 849

Great timing... Four news releases (2 official) and NASDAQ sinks like a stones. nt.excite.com nt.excite.com Two mentions of Sigma by Thom Calandra of CBS Marketwatch cbs.marketwatch.com cbs.marketwatch.com And one of the two unofficial releases due out this week FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sigma Designs Unveils Breakthrough Set-Top Box Design World's First PC-Centric Set-Top Box with On-board Hardware MPEG Ready-to-Build Reference Design Available Now LAS VEGAS, NV (April 19, 1999) - Sigma Designs, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIGM), the leading provider of DVD/MPEG-2 decoder solutions, announced today the immediate availability of its next-generation set-top box reference design, the STB 2000. In its premier at the 1999 National Association of Broadcasters Convention, this unique convergence appliance will demonstrate a dramatic leap in flexibility, performance, and cost-reduction for cable companies, telcos, ISPs, satellite providers, and systems integrators that are deploying high bandwidth, digital video-ready Internet services. Sigma's new set-top box design will provide users with a single appliance for browsing the Internet, sending/receiving e-mail, playing DVD and CD disks, ordering movies on-demand, and more. The graphics subsystem on the box is the result of a close partnershi between Sigma Designs and IGS Technologies of Santa Clara, Calif. The IGST CyberPro 5050 display controller features trilinear scaled NTSC and PAL output and is widely regarded as the highest quality chip for ensuring sharp, crisp display of text and graphics on TV sets. This is absolutely critical for enabling web browsing on standard TVs, which offer much lower resolution than computer monitors. The REALmagic EM 8220 MPEG-2/DVD decoder chip on the motherboard interfaces directly to the CyberPro display chip for high-performance video in a window as well as full-screen DVD and MPEG-2 video playback that equals today's conventional set-top DVD players. Further enhancing the STB 2000 is complete DirectShow streaming video support and full compatibility with the Oracle Video Server, SGI MediaBase, Microsoft NetShow Theater, Minerva VNP, VSoft VideoClick, InfoValue QuickVideo, BroadLogic Satellite Express DVB receivers, and the Philips CleverCastPC Data Broadcast System. The STB 2000 can be configured by OEMs with a wide variety of network interface cards (NICs) and receiver cards for transmission capabilities such as Ethernet, ATM, ADSL, cable modem, DVB, DSS, VSB, QAM, QPSK, and CODFM. This enables ISPs of any sort-cable operators, telcos, and ADSL providers-to deploy an integrated, low-cost solution that can combine on-demand and live television programming with Internet web browsing, e-mail, and a variety of other online services. ... We'll have to wait for the other one. I can't find it right now but it will show up on your screen this week. BTW, Yahoo did not post either of the (official) press releases today. Something screwed up.