RAVISENT Partners With NVIDIAô To Demonstrate Industry-Leading DVD, DVR And HDTV Solutions

New Video Solutions Demonstrated During NVIDIA's GeForce 2 GTSô Product Launch

28-Apr-00

RAVISENT Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: RVST) announced that it has teamed with NVIDIAô Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) as a digital video launch partner for NVIDIA's new GeForce 2 GTSô graphics processor unit (GPU). At this week's MicrosoftÆ Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2000 conference, the two firms combined their industry-leading solutions to demonstrate versions of RAVISENT's CineMasterÆ family of integrated solutions for DVD, DVR and HDTV playback that are fully optimized for the GeForce 2 GTS - the first per-pixel shading GPU for the desktop PC market. ""We are pleased to be selected as a digital video launch partner for the GeForce 2 GTS,"" said Alan McCann, Senior Vice President and General Manager for RAVISENT's Personal Computer Division. ""The combination of our state-of-the-art digital video software with the GeForce 2 GTS enables OEMs to immediately provide consumers with affordable PC digital video solutions delivering stunning visual quality, equaling or surpassing that available with digital TVs costing thousands more."" ""The GeForce 2 GTS and RAVISENT combination provides a superior DVD, DVR and HDTV playback solution for PC users,"" said Dan Vivoli, NVIDIA Senior Vice President of Marketing. ""With the introduction of the GeForce 2 GTS, PC OEMs and component manufacturers can be assured that the full video quality enabled by products like CineMaster can be realized on today's PCs."" About Software CineMaster DVD Software CineMaster was developed using RAVISENT's modular software architecture and is a high performance software based solution designed to decode DVD, MPEG-1 and Broadcast MPEG-2 video streams. The application shares the same robust software core of the CineMaster family of products that are in use by major PC OEMs, video graphics and video game manufacturers. Software CineMaster assists OEMs to meet rapidly changing consumers preferences in record time and at a low cost. Software CineMaster DVD is the first software-based DVD solution to deliver both decoding and encoding capabilities, as well as supporting cutting-edge HDTV (High Definition Television) decoding on multimedia PCs. About CineMaster DVR Software CineMaster DVR was developed using RAVISENT's modular software architecture and is a high performance software based solution designed provide PC/TV consumers with the ability to view, record and ""time-shift"" their live broadcast video and other sources of analog video input. With the Software CineMaster DVR, the viewer can pause, rewind and playback video at any chosen point, all while recording the entire program in the background. RAVISENT enables PC/TV OEMs to deliver a high quality, low-cost DVR solution all in software. About CineMaster HDTV Based on RAVISENT's award-winning CineMaster MPEG-2 decoder technology, CineMaster HDTV incorporates newly-developed, advanced proprietary algorithms enabling the decoding and playback of all eighteen digital television formats specified by the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC), including all the high definition television (HDTV) formats. CineMaster HDTV also incorporates proprietary software technology for full transport de-multiplexing with enhanced stream management for audio/video pacing and buffers management. The eighteen ATSC formats were adopted in 1996 by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the standards for digital television in the USA. A number of television stations throughout the US already broadcast digital broadcast signals. All FCC-licensed stations are required to completely convert to digital television broadcasting by 2006. About RAVISENT Technologies Inc. RAVISENT provides digital video, audio and Internet appliance technology to industry leading PC, Consumer Electronic and Internet Appliance OEMs, empowering them to deliver highly competitive, cost-effective products with a strong time-to-market advantage. RAVISENT software and intellectual property is contained in products from Compaq, Dell Computer, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Micron, Fujitsu, Quantex, Sony, Tottori-Sanyo, Vestel, Yamaha, ATI Technologies, C-Cube, ST Microelectronics, Telecom Italia, Met@box Formenti and IPM. Founded in 1994, RAVISENT is a global company, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with offices in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Germany and Japan. More information about RAVISENT is available at www.ravisent.com. About NVIDIA The computing industry recognizes NVIDIA as the global leader in advanced graphics processing technology for mainstream platforms, honoring the company with the most awards in the history of the PC industry. The unmatched breadth of the NVIDIA product family enables gripping multimedia experiences for the entire desktop computer market from workstations to internet-enabled appliances. In use by large corporations, small- to medium-sized businesses, and home-based consumers, NVIDIA products are the solutions of choice for the top PC OEMs, add-in card designers, and system builders worldwide. NVIDIA graphics processors deliver superior performance and crisp visual quality for PC based applications such as manufacturing, science, e-business, entertainment, and education. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.nvidia.com.

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