Toshiba Selects Trident's PanelTV™SVP to Deliver Home-Theater Quality Video in Their Line of Dynabook Notebook PCs
Sunnyvale, California. June 1, 2004:
Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:
"The fusion of the computer and consumer digital media has long been anticipated. We are very excited to collaborate with Toshiba's initiative to bring consumer LCD TV quality into their mainstream Dynabook consumer notebook product line. We are also very honored that our PanelTV™SVP has been chosen for its highest integration level and the best video quality to fulfill Toshiba's vision. Toshiba's notebook PCs have long been recognized for its innovative designs and outstanding multimedia capabilities. The high integration level of the PanelTV™SVP chip made it possible for Toshiba to implement their stringent and compact notebook PC design requirements,” said Dr. J.H. Chang, president of Trident Technology Inc. “With the advent of digital video broadcasting and the popularity of digital audio distribution on the web, the competitive landscape of the consumer PC market is undergoing a big change. More consumer audio/video features will find its way into consumer PCs. We are very confident that with our DCRe™ technology in the PanelTV™ and DPTV™ product families and our HDTV SOC solution in the HiDTV™ product family, we can continue making inroads into major PC OEMs as they search for high quality and highly integrated multimedia features to differentiate themselves in this dynamic consumer PC market space.”
Trident's PanelTV™SVP integrates an advanced fourth-generation 3-D digital comb video decoder for NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats. Trident's 3-D digital video decoder reads consecutive horizontal scanning lines within each video frame, making corrections as it goes, to ensure maximum picture detail and resolution. Based on Trident's proprietary unified memory architecture (UMA), the PanelTV™SVP digital comb video decoder requires no extra frame buffers for performing 3-D comb filtering. This feature translates into further cost savings for the TV OEMs. With film-mode recovery, PanelTV™SVP correctly detects the frame sequence of the incoming video sources, and then dynamically restores the video source to the original film sequence in playback eliminating the artifacts found in the process while converting typical interlaced signals to progressive signals. The motion adaptive de-interlacing and edge-smoothing features of the PanelTV™SVP refine the video display quality. The PanelTV™SVP also enables SDTV signals to display in Picture-In-Picture mode, Picture-Out-Picture mode, and 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio modes. Furthermore, the PanelTV™SVP supports non-linear scaling in the panorama mode to ensure the most natural picture aspect ratio for the viewers. PanelTV™SVP's integrated 3-D digital comb video decoder also has a built-in VBI circuit for Closed Captioning and V-Chip for parental control that is EIA 608 compliant.
Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the company's expectations for the PanelTV™ market, and designs for the PanelTV™ 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 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 TVs, LCD TVs, PDP TVs, HDTVs, 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:
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