Zoran Announces New High Performance SupraTV 160 Processor Family for Set Top Box and Digital Television Markets
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Grundig and Homecast Models; Zoran Reference Designs Demonstrated at IBC 2006 in Amsterdam
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 6-- Zoran Corporation (NASDAQ:ZRAN) announced that its SupraTV 160 family of highly integrated processors for digital televisions and set top box systems, is shipping in new products from Homecast and other major European brands that will be demonstrated at the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2006 in Amsterdam during September 8-12. In addition, new set-top box models from Grundig using SupraTV processors will be on display.
"Homecast's SupraTV 140-based satellite set-top boxes have been very successful because the SupraTV processor enables us to provide many high quality features accessed via an attractive user interface. We have received excellent support from Zoran to optimize our new product solutions. Our customers welcome our new SupraTV 160-based models -- especially, the USB support and the improved price points," said Seung-Jo Choi, managing director and chief technology officer at Homecast.
"Zoran's SupraTV 140 processor has worked well for Grundig's current families of entry, mid-range, and digital video recorders for the European satellite and terrestrial markets. We welcome the opportunity to use Zoran's new SupraTV 160 processors to provide additional key features such as common interface modules for viewing encrypted content and playback of external media files enabled by the new USB interface," said Horst Janssen, product director digital reception at Grundig.
"Our goal for the SupraTV 160 family of products is to enable our customers to offer a range of highly differentiated products based on a single platform. We are delighted that set-top boxes based on our SupraTV processors are now in production from Grundig, Homecast and other leading manufacturers of satellite and terrestrial set-top boxes for Europe and the Middle East," said Ram Ofir, senior vice president, general manager Zoran's home entertainment division.
The SupraTV 160 family of programmable processors when combined with Zoran's complete SiliconSoftware solution deliver all the key features required for designing terrestrial, satellite, and cable set-top boxes as well as integrated digital televisions for the European market. Advanced features enabling manufacturers to offer highly differentiated products even in cost- sensitive markets include: digital video recording hardware and software, two- slot Common Interface Modules (DVB-CIMs), MHEG-5 for the UK terrestrial market, advanced security, and USB 1.1 for software updates as well as MP3 and JPEG file decoding.
The SupraTV 160 family integrates a MIPS32 CPU complete with a Memory Management Unit supporting 16 and 32bit SDRAM, programmable multi-stream transport demultiplexer with conditional access, flexible audio DSP supporting MPEG, MP3, and WMA audio standards, MPEG video decoder, high quality video scalar with an advanced 2D graphics engine, digital video encoder, audio DAC, digital timing oscillator, and smart card protection and control functions. A programmable guest bus enables glueless connections to hard drives or peripheral devices including Common Interface and Ethernet ICs, and is used in conjunction with other features to offer a low system cost for DVB-CIM and digital video recording.
The SupraTV 160 processor will be demonstrated by invitation at Zoran's IBC customer meeting suite located in the RAI Convention Center.
About Zoran Corporation
Zoran Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is a leading provider of digital solutions in the growing digital entertainment and digital imaging markets. With two decades of expertise developing and delivering digital signal processing technologies, Zoran has pioneered high-performance digital audio and video, imaging applications and Connect and Share technologies for the digital home. Zoran's proficiency in integration delivers major benefits for OEM customers, including greater capabilities within each product generation, reduced system costs, and shorter time to market. Zoran-based DVD, digital camera, DTV, multimedia mobile phone, and multifunction printer products have received recognition for excellence and are now hundreds of millions of homes worldwide. With headquarters in the U.S. and operations in Canada, China, England, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, Zoran may be contacted on the World Wide Web at www.zoran.com or at 408-523-6500.
Source: Zoran Corporation
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Betty Watkins
Zoran Corporation
Tel: 408-523-4373
Email: betty.watkins@zoran.com
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