TeraLogic to Offer World's First 4:2:2 Studio-Quality HDTV Decoder
04/19/1999 PR Newswire
(Copyright (c) 1999, PR Newswire)
Lucent, Mitsubishi Join Early Access Program
LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- TeraLogic, Inc. announced today the TL855, the newest member in its family of leading-edge digital TV (DTV) products. The TL855 is the world's first single chip solution capable of meeting the MPEG 4:2:2 high-definition (HD) decoding standard. TeraLogic also announced the initiation of the TL855 Early Access Program (EAP) today. The EAP provides broadcast equipment industry leaders, including EAP participants Lucent Digital Video and Mitsubishi Electric Digital Broadcasting Systems, an early lead in developing professional-quality 4:2:2 HDTV decoders to offer with their 4:2:2 HDTV encoder products. Broadcasters and producers use 4:2:2 capable encoders and decoders to transport, edit and monitor high-quality HDTV video over their networks.
"The TL855 is the only solution that can address the high-definition decoding demands of studio engineers," commented Andreas Papanicolaou, President of Lucent Digital Video. "With TeraLogic's technology, we will be able to offer broadcasters the ability to monitor the superior picture detail and color quality of Lucent Digital Video's 4:2:2 encoders for HDTV applications."
"Teaming with TeraLogic gives Mitsubishi the high quality HDTV decoding solutions we need," added Tetsuya Yamaguchi, General Manager of Mitsubishi's Koriyama Works. "TeraLogic's technology, combined with Mitsubishi's leading digital encoder and systems products, will provide broadcasters and professionals a great opportunity to create and shape feature-rich digital TV programming."
Manufacturers selected for TeraLogic's TL855 Early Access Program (EAP) have early access to engineering samples and production units, and prioritized technical support. As EAP partners, Lucent and Mitsubishi will be able to verify and test the TL855 within their worldwide network of broadcast customers who are deploying digital television networks. All the major broadcasters in the US and Japan plan to deploy HDTV networks, and the transition to HDTV is, in fact, already underway. Since the Fall of 1998, consumers in the U.S. have been able to receive HDTV broadcast programming in more than ten of the major television markets; this will increase to thirty before the end of 1999. In Japan, nationwide HDTV service via satellite will be launched in 2000.
"TeraLogic is, once again, breaking new ground in the DTV industry," stated Jon Castor, President of TeraLogic, Inc. "By leveraging our expertise, we are now in a position to serve both the consumer and the professional end of the digital TV spectrum. With market leading EAP partners like Lucent and Mitsubishi integrating our chips into their products, we will continue to grow our leadership in providing superior DTV solutions to OEMs."
Based on TeraLogic's leading all-format DTV decoders for the consumer and PC markets, the TL855 is a single chip MPEG 4:2:2 HD decoder designed to serve the needs of professional and broadcast equipment manufacturers and their customers. With added chroma information and very high video bit rates, 4:2:2 coding provides the superior picture quality improvements over 4:2:0 coding demanded by broadcasters and professionals.
TeraLogic will be demonstrating its DTV technologies during the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show from April 19-22 in a suite at the Las Vegas Hilton. For more information, please contact Sterling Communications at 408-441-4100.
About Lucent Digital Video
Lucent Digital Video, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lucent Technologies, is a leading OEM equipment manufacturer to the broadcast, cable, wireless cable, fiber optic, satellite back-hauling, and DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) markets. Lucent Digital Video (LDV) recently announced the first working on-air HDTV broadcasts that provide support for data for electronic program guides and other sophisticated data services. In 1998 LDV conducted the first formal interoperability tests between an ATSC encoder and HDTV receivers, and the first on-air closed captioning demonstrations. Lucent built the world's first MPEG -2 and digital HDTV encoders and won a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award in 1997 for its pioneering work in DTV. For more information on Lucent Digital Video, visit the Web site at lucent.com.
About Mitsubishi Electric Broadcasting Systems
Mitsubishi Electric is the first manufacturer to deliver HDTV encoding and decoding products to broadcasters for commercial application and offers technical field support to its entire line of HDTV products. Mitsubishi Electric recognizes the significance of digital broadcasting and contributes to the global transition to digital broadcast with its high quality products. That vision has made it possible to introduce the first production version of Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) in 1998. Mitsubishi Electric provided PSIP Products to a test house located in Washington, D.C. last autumn, and this verification was the first time that real-time PSIP was broadcast over the air, and has been continued up to the present. Mitsubishi Electric has developed next generation DTV components which will satisfy broadcaster's demand; everyone is welcome to visit Mitsubishi's booth at NAB'99. For more information on Mitsubishi's product line up, please see mitsubishielectric.com.
About TeraLogic, Inc.
Founded in 1996, TeraLogic, Inc. is the world's leading privately held semiconductor venture focused on providing products that enable growth in digital television. TeraLogic designs and develops integrated circuits and provides reference designs and development platforms to its customers, including the TL850-based HDTV Cougar platform, the Janus HDTV solution for personal computers, and the TL750-based Puma platform. TeraLogic's customers include leading OEMs of advanced TVs, set-top boxes and PC-TV convergence products. TeraLogic's ICs can be used to provide enhanced digital capabilities to existing analog television, and as the basis for advanced, high-definition digital TV and DTV-PC systems. The Company also develops new technologies based on R&D in wavelet mathematics, and is a 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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Contact: /CONTACT: Mary Mansson of TeraLogic, Inc., 650-586-6055; or Kevin Pedraja or Alice Aoki, both of Sterling Communications, Inc., 408-441-4100, for TeraLogic, Inc./ 08:45 EDT
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