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INTERVIDEO AND SiS RECEIVE MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 WHQL LOGO FOR SOFTWARE DVD PLAYBACK
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~ Best-In-Class WinDVD Player Combined with the Integrated 3C Single Chip SiS630 Delivers Powerful Multimedia Capabilities to Mainstream Computers ~
FREMONT, Calif.- January 20, 2000--InterVideo, Inc. ("IVI") and Hsin-Chu, Taiwan-based Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) announced today that the highly acclaimed software DVD player, WinDVD, had passed Microsoft's new test requirements for a Windows Hardware Quality Labs logo for Windows 2000 on a system configured with Silicon Integrated System's powerful solution for the internet age, the integrated 3C Single Chip SiS630. WinDVD is the first software DVD solution to be granted Logo status by Microsoft on this new platform.
Microsoft uses three WHQL status designations for software DVD players: Development, Compatible and Logo. Major system manufacturers worldwide require this Logo status before they will consider shipping a software DVD solution. Microsoft tests all software DVD players for compliant implementation of their DirectShow APIs, support for a proper DVD navigation and a relatively bug-free user experience.
"SiS has worked with InterVideo as its partner in this important segment for a variety of reasons," noted Alex Wu, SiS Director of Integrated Product Division. "The product is the best in its class. It supports all of the Microsoft operating systems. The company's excellent engineering and marketing supports align with SiS state-of-the-art chipset technologies. And we believe that InterVideo's digital roadmap will offer us a long term relationship opportunity."
"This is an important milestone for WinDVD and SiS630", noted InterVideo Director of Sales and Marketing for Asia, William Wang. "SiS is already a leading chip set vendor in the retail space and has incorporated the necessary features to support high performance video. Receiving the Microsoft logo will also make SiS a strong contender in the OEM marketplace."
WinDVD's impressive list of features includes an advanced, intuitive user interface, software video window scaling, software and hardware sub-picture alpha blending, software video signal de-interlacing, and software color and brightness control. The player offers state-of-the-art support for Dolby Digital TM multi-channel audio, VCD disc playback, DVD region control and incorporates the most powerful and responsive DVD navigator in the industry. WinDVD has been unanimously praised throughout the PC industry for its exceptional video quality, receiving best in class awards from PC Magazine, DOS/V Magazine and in numerous DVD website reviews.
WinDVD supports all of the industry standard DVD APIs, including DirectShow(TM), DirectDraw(TM) and DirectSound(TM), and is legacy compatible with the MCI interactive title standard. In addition, InterVideo has a unique application interface layer to allow WinDVD to quickly support any graphics adapter with DVD hardware-assist features, like motion compensation and IDCT. WinDVD's architecture is uniquely modular and tightly tailored to the DVD specification and the intricacies of the PC system environment, providing the most seamless navigation experience available.
The SiS630 integrates the north bridge chip, super south bridge chip (SiS960) and the real 128-bit 3D graphics accelerator (SiS300) all into one single chip. It provides high quality functions of V.90 Software Modem , 10/100M Fast Ethernet , 1M Home PNA, 3D Positional Audio , Advanced H/W DVD playback and 2D/3D graphics engine. By using SiS630, mainstream PCs will be able to deliver the state-of-the-art 3C performance with no need for various add-on cards. The SiS630 can save over US$150 for board makers and help accelerate products' time-to-market. SiS has ensured that the SiS630 is optimized for the latest Pentium !!! and Celeron CPUs. |
