Trident Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRID –
"We selected Trident's DPTV™ SVP chip because it enables us to offer significantly better image quality to our customers while lowering our system cost," said Mr. Li Hong An, General Manager of Skyworth's design center. "The DPTV™ SVP video processor is a highly-integrated, feature-rich video processor that we can use across a wide range of TV designs to meet the Chinese TV market's dynamic requirements."
"China, which is truly a global production base for televisions, is expected to build a total of 65 million sets during 2004. That's up over 7.5 percent from 2003 and CRT televisions account for nearly all of China's production. We are glad to see that Skyworth, one of the leading Chinese TV manufacturers, has chosen our DPTV™ SVP video processor for its digital CRT TVs. Trident is honored to work with Skyworth on its multi-scan, pure flat digital CRT television series," said Dr. J.H. Chang, president of Trident Technologies Inc.
Trident's DPTV™ SVP video processor features the award-winning Digital Cinema Reality engine (DCRe™) which includes an advanced 3-D digital comb color decoder, pixel-perfect motion adaptive de-interlacing, vertical and horizontal sharpness enhancement, object-based intelligent digital noise reduction, dynamic Average Picture Level (APL) feedback to enhance video dynamic range, and the DETI engine to provide vivid colors. The DPTV™ SVP integrates an advanced fourth-generation 3-D/2-D digital comb video decoder for NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats. Based on Trident's patented proprietary unified memory architecture, DPTV™ SVP's digital comb video decoder does not require an extra frame buffer for performing 3D comb filtering. With film-mode recovery, DPTV™ SVP correctly detects the frame rates of incoming video sources, and then dynamically restores the video source to the original film mode sequences for playback. The film-mode recovery of DPTV™ SVP eliminates the artifacts found in a typical interlaced signal to progressive conversion process. The motion adaptive de-interlacing and edge-smoothing feature of the DPTV™ SVP refines the video display quality. The DPTV™ SVP 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™ SVP supports non-linear scaling in panorama mode to ensure the most natural picture aspect ratio for the viewers. DPTV™ SVP's integrated 3-D digital comb video decoder has a built-in VBI slicer and decoder for closed caption and V-chip parental control that is EIA 608 compliant. Furthermore, DPTV™ SVP's graphic-based on-screen display enable an exceptionally user-friendly and graphically-oriented TV menu control. Both interlaced and progressive-scan video output are supported
Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the company's expectations for the DPTV™ market and designs for the DPTV™ product. The forward-looking statements above are subject to certain risks, and actual results could vary materially depending on a number of factors. These risks include, in particular, trends in the television industry, the results of Trident's sales and shipment activities to television manufacturers, Trident's ability to timely introduce new or follow-on products, Trident's success in implementing planned production, competitive pressures, including pricing and competitors' new product introductions. Additional factors that may affect the Company's business are described in detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Skyworth
Skyworth Group Company Limited was founded in Hong Kong to export television sets to OEM's worldwide. Skyworth Digital Holdings Limited was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in April 2000. Manufacturing color televisions is the major business of the group, and it has continued to achieve excellent results in China and the overseas market. In 1999, the Group was the major color television exporter for China & the fourth largest TV manufacturer in China. For more information, please visit Skyworth's website: http://www.skyworth.com.cn .
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 boxes. 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.
NOTE: 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.