Faroudja Awarded Third Emmy By National Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences

18-Oct-01

Faroudja, a division of Sage, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAGI) and widely considered a leader in video-enhancing technologies for professional and home environments, announced it has been awarded its third EmmyÆ by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The award for ""Pioneering Development Of An HDTV Upconverter"" recognizes a suite of technologies that is instrumental in converting ordinary standard-definition content into high-definition video. This award-winning suite includes DCDiô deinterlacing, IntelliComb video decoding and TrueLife enhancement -- technologies that are the culmination of thirty years of Faroudja video experience.""We are extremely pleased to receive this prestigious recognition by the Academy,"" commented Chandra Reddy, CEO of Sage, Inc. ""The innovative technology we developed to create the HDTV upconversion process in our Digital Format Translator (DFT) has now been implemented in our other Faroudja processors -- such as the DVP5000, DVP3000 and new Native Rate Series -- and into our custom IC solutions with the Sage FLI2200 video deinterlacer and FLI2220 video enhancer, so we can deliver unparalleled image quality to the TV station, home theatre, DVD player and even within the TV itself.""Faroudja's commitment to creating an excellent HDTV image from standard-definition sources resulted in the first upconverter for the television broadcast station to effectively parallel the very benefits outlined for HDTV by the Advanced Television Systems Committee: to provide cleaner, sharper images that would excite the consumer to want to invest in new video products for a more fulfilling home theatre experience.Upconversion of NTSC or other standard-definition material to HDTV requires the highest quality video decoding, deinterlacing, scaling and enhancement. The overall result of applying the following technologies is a richer, more pleasing, high-definition-like picture: - Stressing technology for moving images instead of just test patterns, Faroudja's patented video decoding algorithms use intelligent adaptive combing (IntelliComb) to separate luma and chroma signals, and time-base correction to stabilize unstable sources like low-cost VCRs. - Patented deinterlacing is motion-adaptive on a per-pixel basis and includes film mode for proper handling of 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown material, bad edit detection/correction and Directional Correlational Deinterlacing (DCDi). - DCDi eliminates jagged edges normally seen on angled lines in motion video, creating smooth and natural-looking images. - TrueLife enhancement uses patented non-linear algorithms to enhance the small details and colors in images and improve depth perception by sharpening large edges without introducing visual artifacts or distortion. This is the third Emmy awarded to the company. Earlier awards include a 1991 Emmy for engineering development and a 1998 Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Emmy to Faroudja's founder Yves Faroudja. For more information, visit www.faroudja.com.

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