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27/8/2003

Vestel Designs Genesis Microchip's Video Technology Into LCD TV Platforms

Genesis gm6015 Controller Designed into Vestel's New 20-Inch and 22-Inch LCD TVs

Genesis Microchip Inc. (Nasdaq:GNSS), a world leader in the development of display technologies for consumer and PC-display products, today announced that Vestel Electronics, one of the Europe's largest electronics companies whose products are sold to leading consumer electronics manufacturers, designed Genesis Microchip's gm6015 digital video format converter into its new 20-inch VGA and 22-inch wide XGA LCD TVs. Vestel will be demonstrating both models during the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, August 28 through September 3.

The gm6015 is a single-chip digital video format converter that incorporates deinterlacing with highly flexible scaling and aspect ratio conversion technologies for progressive-scan TV, digital TV and HDTV applications. These technologies are required to convert standard interlaced and high definition video signals into formats compatible with the fixed pixel formats of flat panel LCD and Plasma displays.

"We selected Genesis Microchip's video processing technology because it provides the broadest suite of features to satisfy our LCD TV requirements, including motion-adaptive deinterlacing and film-mode processing," said Mr. Ihsaner Alkim, chief technology officer for Vestel. "With the Genesis solution, our LCD TVs provide consistently high levels of image quality while maintaining the competitive pricing that our customers look for when making their purchasing decisions."

"We are very pleased that Vestel selected Genesis technology as the basis of its video processing for its new LCD TV platforms," said Anders Frisk, executive vice president and COO of Genesis Microchip. "With our patented video processing algorithms, we enable Vestel's new LCD televisions to produce clear, cinema-like images that are visibly better."

Additional features of the gm6015 digital video controller include:

*Film-mode for proper handling of 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown material.

*Motion-adaptive algorithms that select optimal filtering on a per-pixel basis to produce maximum resolution and suppress motion artifacts.

*Flexible horizontal and vertical scalers to perform aspect ratio conversion and to upconvert an image to resolutions up to WXGA.

*Frame rate conversion.

*Noise Reduction.

*Input resolutions of 480i (NTSC), 576i (PAL/SECAM), 480p, 720p, 1080i and VGA to XGA.

*Output resolutions of 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i, and VGA to WXGA.

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