iDVDBox Incorporates Tvia’s Streaming Media Technology Into Groundbreaking Entertainment Product
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 24,
2000 via NewsEdge Corporation -
Tvia, Inc. (Nasdaq:TVIA), one of the leading
manufacturers of streaming media gateway
silicon solutions for Internet appliances,
broadband set-top boxes and digital television,
today announced that iDVDBox(TM), Inc., Boca
Raton, Fla. is using Tvia’s streaming media
processing technology in its iDVDBox, an
integrated Interactive-Internet, set-top box and
DVD player. iDVDBox plans to ship the DVD player
by the end of 2000. Tvia’s CyberPro 5005
streaming media processor enables iDVDBox to
provide broadcast-quality video as well as
high-performance graphics, audio, text,
animation and Internet content to be displayed
on to a television screen. The easy-to-use
iDVDBox Interactive-Internet DVD player allows
consumers to surf the Internet, send e-mail, and
enjoy the full capabilities of DVD and CD players,
at a click of a button. For example, consumers
will be able to watch a baseball game and
monitor web content on the same screen at the
same time. The iDVDBox supports HTML,
JavaScript, Flash, SSL, as well as all major audio,
video and graphics format, and provides
advanced professional-grade surround sound
capabilities and picture quality.
“Tvia’s technology gives our DVD player the
ability to intelligently and automatically make
connections between DVD content and Web
content and to dynamically deliver this enhanced
information to a TV screen,” said Steve
Cavayero, president and Chief Executive Officer
of iDVDBox. “Tvia is allowing us to offer
consumers a new entertainment experience and
a new simplicity in using the Internet. We
anticipate sales of the iDVD player to contribute
significantly to the company’s revenue over the
next 12 - 18 months.”
“We are very pleased that iDVDBox selected our
technology to help it create such an innovative
product as the Interactive-Internet DVD player,”
said Vahe Akay, vice president of marketing,
Tvia, Inc. “Through this single device, consumers
have an easy way to explore the merging worlds
of interactive TV, DVD media and the Internet.”
The CyberPro5005 is a high-performance, highly
integrated streaming media processor. Used in
advanced set-top boxes and Internet appliances
from the world’s leading OEM manufacturers, the
CyberPro5005 can process, in real time, multiple
streams of rich media content including, video,
data, graphics text and animation. It combines a
high-performance video processor including a
multiple video capture engine, scaling, time-base
correction, de-interlacing, overlay/transparency
processing and picture-in-picture. Additionally a
graphics/text/animation processor with an
integrated high-performance flicker filter provides
optimum TV display performance.