Faroudja Introduces Breakthrough Native Rate Series Video Processor

Innovative New Processor Perfects Video Sources For Fixed-Installation Digital Displays, Delivering Unrivalled Image Quality

9-Jan-01

Faroudja, a division of Sage, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAGI) and widely considered a leader in video-enhancing technologies for professional and home environments, introduces the Native Rate Series Video Processor at the 2001 International Consumer Electronics Show. The Native Rate Series processor is specifically designed to optimize mid-priced fixed-installation digital LCD, DLP and plasma displays at a new more affordable price. As with all of Faroudja's processors, it inputs standard video sources and upconverts them using patented, award-winning Faroudja technology to match each display's native resolution. Very clean progressive signals are input through each display's computer path and sent directly to the display engine. The processor achieves all this at a breakthrough price and with a unique degree of customization, as each processor is adjusted by Faroudja to deliver the best possible image quality for each customer's video or home theatre system. When an NR Series processor is ordered, the unit is customized for the specified scan rate determined for each customer's display. The processor is optimized for that scan rate, and includes six different fine-tune adjustments for the Bandwidth Expansion circuit. Scan rates can be optimized for resolutions of 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 852 x 490, 1024 x 768, 1024 x 1024 and 1280 x 768 pixels.Patented technology in the NR Series processor includes adaptive comb filtering, cross-color suppression, 10-bit processing, two-line time base correction and chroma bandwidth expansion - all for color processing, as well as advanced 3/2 film logic and advanced edit detection to handle film motion processing and DCDiô for accurate, artifact-free de-interlacing of original video material, and rate-optimized luma bandwidth expansion for superb detail processing. The processor also features built-in aspect ratio control. The extensive complement of rear-panel connections includes a special HDTV input and standard component, S-Video and composite inputs. RGB, Y/Pr/Pb and component outputs maximize flexibility, and the unit can be controlled with an included infrared remote, or from a computer via the RS-232 serial port. The Native Rate Series Processor/Scalers will be available in the first quarter of 2001, at a suggested retail price under $5,000.For more information about Faroudja and Sage Inc., visit www.sageinc.com. 

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