Sampo Selects
Trident's DPTV™3DPRO and PanelPro™Multimedia
(PMM) Combo Solution to Power the New Series of Claire Brand
and Sampo Brand LCD TVs
Sunnyvale, California. November 04, 2003:
Trident Technologies Inc, a subsidiary of Trident Microsystems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: TRID),
and a world-wide leader in developing cutting-edge digital
TV technology for the consumer digital video marketplace,
today announced that Sampo Corporation, Taiwan's #1 manufacturer
of home appliances, consumer electronics, and telecommunication
products, has selected Trident’s DPTV™3DPRO
video processor and PanelPro™Multimedia (PMM) LCD
controller combo solution to power its new lines of Claire
brand and Sampo brand LCD TVs. The LCD TV models that are
powered by DPTV™3DPRO and PMM combo solutions are
LM-20PNC, LM-27PNC, and LM-30PNC for the Claire LCD TV series;
and LM-20PN, LM-27PN, and LM-30PN for the Sampo LCD TV series.
"The Claire and Sampo brand LCD TVs are Sampo's top-of-the-line
LCD TVs for which we demand the utmost video image quality
and data display monitor capabilities from the video processor
electronics," said Mr. H.C. Ho, president and CEO of
SAMPO Corporation. "Trident's DPTV™3DPRO and PanelPro™Multimedia
(PMM) combo solutions provide outstanding analog TV video
image, uncompromising HDTV picture quality, and clear PC image
scaling display to make the Claire and Sampo LCD TV's image
quality a Sampo masterpiece. In addition, the excellent scalabity
of DPTV/PMM architectures will enable us to deploy a wide
range of 20 inch to 30 inch LCD TV models in a short time."
"We are very excited that Sampo, the world Plasma Display
Panel (PDP) TV manufacturing leader, has once again selected
our DPTV™3DPRO and PMM combo solution to power its
Claire and Sampo brand HDTV-ready LCD TVs," said Dr.
J.H. Chang, president of the Trident Technologies Inc. "Trident
and Sampo have worked very closely in the past years to propel
Sampo's PDP TV products into the market with great success.
We are confident that together we can achieve similar success
once again with the new LCD TV series."
Trident's DPTV™3DPRO integrates an advanced third-generation
3D digital comb video decoder for NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats.
Based on Trident's patented proprietary Unified Memory Architecture
(UMA), DPTV™3DPRO digital comb video decoder requires
no extra frame buffers for performing 3D comb filtering. With
film-mode recovery, DPTV™3DPRO correctly detects
the frame rates of incoming video sources and then dynamically
restores the video source to the original film mode sequences
in play back. The motion adaptive de-interlacing and edge-smoothing
feature of DPTV™3DPRO refines the video display
quality. DPTV™3DPRO enables a SDTV signal to display
in Picture-in-Picture mode, Picture-Out-Picture mode, and
16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio modes. DPTV™3DPRO supports
non-linear scaling in the panorama mode to ensure the most
natural picture aspect ratio for viewers. DPTV™3DPRO
supports RGB output up to 1240x1024x60 resolution. DPTV™3DPRO
has a built-in VBI circuit for Closed Captioning and V-chip
for parental control that is EIA 608 compliant. Furthermore,
DPTV™3DPRO's graphic-based On-Screen Display provides
the most user-friendly and graphic-oriented TV menu control
interface. The video stream can be refreshed in either the
Interlace or the Progressive modes.
The PanelPro™Multimedia (PMM) is an advanced highly
integrated and high-quality LCD controller chip that is designed
with an external CPU for maximum system design flexibility.
The PMM video processor integrates an advanced clamping circuitry,
pre-amp functions, three 135mHz high precision 8-bit and high-speed
ADCs, two independent line-locked PLL sync separator circuitries,
and a cubic-4 scaling engine. PMM has a dual 24-bit digital
RGB port, SYNC inputs, and a separated 8/16-bit digital port
for video decoder connection. PMM is capable of accepting
analog RGB inputs up to SXGA resolution and HDTV digital inputs
up to 1080i. PMM accepts digital video signals (D1 480i, D2
480P, D3 1080i, and D4 720P) via its 8/16-bit YUV CCIR601
or 8-bit CCIR656 video ports. Through PMM's 48-bit digital
output, PMM delivers high-quality PC graphics and HDTV images
to the respective LCD display devices. DPTV™'s cinema-perfect
video image processing and PMM's cubic-4 pixel scaling feature
offer a design paragon to large-sized LCD TVs where requirements
for both outstanding video quality and clear PC data display
converge
About Sampo
Sampo Corporation is Taiwan’s top manufacturer of home
appliances, consumer electronics, and telecommunication products
since 1936. Sampo Group’s products lines include digital
TVs, DVDs, PCs, monitors, CRTs, LCD TVs, and PDPs. With the
NT$23 Billion in revenue in 2003, Sampo is a leader in the
Taiwan market and a world-class OEM supplier. Additional information
is available at http://www.sampo.com.tw/english/
About Trident Microsystems,
Inc.
Trident Microsystems, Inc., with headquarters in Sunnyvale,
California, designs, develops and markets digital media for
the masses in the form of integrated circuits (ICs) for CRT
TV, LCD TV, PDP TV, HDTV, and digital set-top box. Trident's
products are sold to a network of OEMs, original design manufacturers
and system integrators worldwide. For further information
about Trident and its products, please consult the company's
web site: http://www.tridentmicro.com
Trident is a registered trademark of Trident Microsystems;
Inc. DPTV™ is a trademark of Trident Microsystems,
Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features,
pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change
without notice.