Pioneer Ships Voyager 3510HD HD Set-Top Box To Time Warner Cable

2-Apr-03

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., a leader in cable television digital set-top boxes, announced that it has begun shipping its Voyagerô 3510HD digital set-top box to Time Warner Cable. Engineered to meet the demand for high-definition television (HD/HDTV) entertainment, the new set-top box is competitively priced with many features. Pioneer's Voyager 3510HD offers viewers the ability to enjoy high picture quality from analog, digital and HDTV signals. With the Voyager 3510HD, cable customers will have the ability to view high-definition programs in all 16 ATSC formats supported by the cable industry, including 720p and 1080i, as well as 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. ""Cable operators want to offer the most compelling HD tier to gain a distinct advantage over satellite,"" said Paul Dempsey, President of the Business Solutions Division at Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. ""The Voyager 3510HD will ensure that cable operators can offer the most superior platform, at the most competitive price, guaranteeing a true value for their customers.""The Voyager 3510HD boasts a generous feature set, including:- Graphics over HD video -- Pioneer's 3510HD supports full graphics over HD capability with video scaling, allowing cable customers to enjoy uninterrupted HD content while viewing program descriptions or utilizing other capabilities of an interactive program guide.- High-definition decoding capabilities -- decodes all 16 Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) high-definition digital formats supported by the cable industry, including 480p, 720p, and 1080i, and outputs to a variety of devices including plasma, HDTV-ready TVs, and standard TVs.- Aspect ratio control -- allows for the user to determine the video format based on their TV and personal viewing preference for a variety of display options. Setting zoom, stretch, or letterbox modes are accessible through a simple on-screen user interface.- Video upconversion and downconversion -- customer-configurable controls enable the Voyager 3510HD to output screen resolutions optimized for any display type. Incoming video resolutions are detected and up-converted or down-converted automatically, based on the configured output.- DVI (HDCP-compliant) and a host of other connections -- Digital Visual Interface, when combined with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection technology provides additional security against recording and creates a protected digital connection for viewing high-value digital content.- Advanced dual processing power -- for optimum display of 65,000 colors on HD video simultaneously using an enhanced graphics engine.- Allows for both interlaced (1080i) and progressive (720p) scanning for greater flexibility.- Allows both analog and MPEG-2 digital channels to be displayed.- Flexible memory configurations up to 32 MB of SDRAM memory -- increases the number of instructions that the set-top box can perform.- Built-in ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) digital decoder -- doubles both vertical and horizontal resolution in analog displays.- Supports leading audio standards -- CD-quality digital sound including DolbyÆ Digital.Pioneer has a 25-year history as a leading hardware provider in the cable television industry. The company has deployed more than 10 million analog and digital cable set-top boxes within the U.S., featuring the Voyager series of advanced digital cable products. Pioneer's Cable and Communications Group is a part of the Business Solutions Division, which provides professional business-to-business products across a wide range of markets including cable television, professional video/audio, educational, medical, legal, and banking. It is one of three companies enjoying a major share among digital set-top boxes deployed in the country today. For more information, visit Pioneer Cable and Communications at www.pioneerbroadband.com.For more information about Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., visit www.pioneerelectronics.com.

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