Philips Electronics Selects Sage's FLI2200 For 2001 Progressive Scan DVD Players

Prototype Demonstration Of Philips' DVD Player Powered By The FLI2200 To Be Viewed At The Consumer Electronics Show

3-Jan-01

Sage Inc. (NASDAQ: SAGI), a leading provider of digital display processors for consumer technology and PC display products, announced that Philips Consumer Electronics has selected the FLI2200 for their 2001 model year progressive scan DVD players. Philips was able to create significant advancements in their DVD players by implementing Sage's award-winning video processing technology - enabling the highest video quality at reduced system costs. ""We are pleased to incorporate the FLI2200 to the excellent suite of features already offered by our DVD players,"" stated Thorsten Koch, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Video, Philips Consumer Electronics, North America. ""Use of the FLI2200 will allow our progressive scan DVD players to offer the kind of video quality previously associated only with high end home theatre systems. This is an unprecedented value proposition for consumers."" The FLI2200 is the world's first 10-bit single-chip motion adaptive de-interlacer that incorporates recently acquired Faroudja Laboratories' EmmyÆ Award-winning de-interlacing and post-processing algorithms to convert standard interlaced video signals into progressive scan signals. The FLI2200 boasts a number of industry first features, including proprietary Diagonal Correlation Deinterlacing (DCDiô). The DCDi algorithm eliminates the jagged edges seen on moving diagonal lines in video images. Other advanced performance capabilities include motion adaptive de-interlacing with optimal filtering on a per pixel basis, film mode for proper handling of 3:2 and 2:2 pull-down, bad edit detection/correction and motion adaptive cross color suppression. ""Selection of the FLI2200 by Philips, one of the world's leading consumer electronics companies, reaffirms the unprecedented picture quality and value offered by this solution,"" said Dr. Nikhil Balram, Sage's Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Products. ""Our proprietary DCDi technology provides smooth, natural looking images in contrast to the stairstepping and jaggies produced along moving edges by other solutions. The DCDi difference is very clear to the average user. This is an important design win that continues the momentum created by the Zoran and Videon-Central DVD player reference platform design wins that Sage previously announced,"" adds Dr. Balram. ""The overall DVD market segment is expanding rapidly and according to CIBC, are estimated grow from 31 million units in 2001 to 71 million units in 2004. We expect progressive scan DVD players and progressive scan TVs to provide a significant market opportunity for the FLI2200."" Philips' new progressive scan DVD player will be showcased from January 6-9, 2001 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada and will be featured at the exhibit booths of Philips Electronics (booth 1326) and Faroudja (booth 6259), a division of Sage. For more information about Philips Electronics, visit www.philips.com. For more information about Sage Inc., visit www.sageinc.com.

Read More:
http://www.sageinc.com
http://www.philips.com