Samsung Selects Philips' SA-CD Chip Solution To Deliver Superior Audio Quality In Advanced DVD Players; The SAA7893HL Enables A Realistic Listening Experience At Home

7-Jul-04

Royal Philips Electronics announced that Samsung Electronics has chosen to integrate Philips' Super Audio CD (SA-CD) single-chip solution, the SAA7893HL. Samsung will integrate Philips' SAA7893HL into its DVD Players (DVD-HD841) as Samsung strives to deliver high-quality audio and video experience to its customers. By promoting this next step in audio-technology, Samsung offers consumers DVD players featuring the next level of audio reproduction -- clearly superior to the CD. With the SAA7893HL by Philips, SA-CD has become a 'must-have' feature in the DVD-video market, bringing a superior multi-channel listening experience to consumers in their home environment. ìThe SA-CD format is quickly moving into the mainstream consumer market, becoming a standard technology feature for DVD players,î says Kurt Sievers, Marketing and Strategy Manager, Connected Multimedia Solutions, Philips Semiconductors. ìCo-developed by Philips, the SA-CD format represents the next level of audio reproduction. Philips' SAA7893HL is the ideal semiconductor solution to seamlessly add SA-CD capabilities to DVD devices.î ìOur decision to use the Philips SAA7893HL for our next generation of DVD players could not have been easier,î said Kim Young-Han, DVD+SA-CD Principal Engineer and Project Manager at Samsung Electronics. ìSA-CD technology delivers the highest possible multi-channel audio quality. By utilizing the easy-to-implement SAA7893HL from Philips, Samsung will be able to offer a truly unbelievable sound experience to end consumers at an affordable price.î The high-performance SA-CD decoding and post-processing capabilities of the Philips SAA7893HL allow the makers of DVD players to bring high-quality multi-channel sound to end consumers at reasonable prices. It is a flexible single-chip hardware and software solution that offers complete SA-CD functionality, yet avoids the need for continual redesign and reintegration of SA-CD into various applications. Due to the integrated multiple loader and host interfaces, the SAA7893HL can support many different DVD platforms. It enables manufacturers to introduce DVD video players and receivers that can support six-channel SA-CD and DVD playback. The six-channel DAC outputs of the DVD host are routed via the chip, which provides a DAC switch function between SA-CD mode and DVD mode. Offering a complete solution, including Annex J+ level SW API, the SAA7893HL also incorporates a full SA-CD software stack. News from Philips is located at www.semiconductors.philips.com; For more information on Samsung, please visit www.samsungusa.com.

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