Toshiba Supports VM Labs Nuonô Technology In Consumer Products Slated For 2000

Toshiba Corporation is backing the NUONô platform by utilizing the technololgy in its future digital consumer products. The first products are anticipated to reach store shelves in the year 2000. NUON is a powerful and versatile technology that transforms digital video products into interactive multimedia centers for the whole family. For the first time, consumers will be able to enjoy high performance interactive applications with sophisticated film quality graphics, on the same machine that provides movie content. ""After following VM Labs carefully since 1995, Toshiba has chosen to incorporate NUON technology into future digital consumer products, the first of which is expected to be available in 2000,"" said Hisashi Yamada, Chief Fellow of Technology and Technology Executive at Toshiba Corporation. ""We are particularly impressed by NUON's highly compelling technology and its potential for the enhancement of a wide range of digital home products and software. We believe NUON will hold an important position in the digital visual market of tomorrow, attracting Hollywood movie studios and other entertainment companies to share in the rapid expansion of interactive content received through the television."" VM Labs Inc., based in Mountain View, California, was founded in 1994. NUONô technology represents a new standard in interactive entertainment. It provides video gaming and interactive content, combined with Internet access, delivered in tandem with mass-market movie and video entertainment. Analysts predict that digital video will replace the current analog method over the next five to ten years. VM Labs and their partners are poised to achieve total market penetration for interactive entertainment with NUON-enhanced digital video products, the same way televisions and VCRs are now available in virtually every home in the nation