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Daewoo Demonstrates The Latest In Wireless Home Entertainment Technology At CES (8/1/2004)

Daewoo Electronics America, Inc. demonstrated its first applications of wireless home entertainment today, developed in partnership with ViXS Systems, the industry's leading developer of video networking chipsets and software, at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

Daewoo Electronics is using ViXS' XCode II video processor and Matrix high performance standard compliant 802.11a chipsets to develop technologies and products for streaming high-quality video over local area networks. The video networking technology provides guaranteed wireless delivery of multiple standard and high-definition (HD) video streams over an 802.11a network throughout a home.

The technology offers broad flexibility for tech-minded users to configure their home entertainment systems as they choose. For example, the technology affords the ability to transmit video from a single source, like a DVD player or satellite receiver, to multiple receivers within the home. Even greater mobility is possible via a quadruple signal transfer system that could simultaneously stream video to a television, notebook computer, a web pad and/or a PDA.

"Today the consumer wants a wireless home network," said Chul Lee, president and chief executive officer for Daewoo Electronics America, Inc. "however, sending high-quality video signals is extremely challenging." "To overcome this obstacle, ViXS has provided us with the perfect compliment to our line of audio/video products for the home with their XCode II and Matrix chipsets. ViXS' chipsets offer unparalleled wireless video processing quality and are optimized for use with high quality video like HDTV."

The ViXS' XCode video processor can adjust the bit-rates, resolutions and formats of multiple MPEG video streams in real time, adapting each stream to changing network bandwidth. By managing the video stream, XCode II is the first product able to guarantee HDTV and DVD quality video over an 802.11 network. ViXS' Matrix is a high-performance, RF dual-channel 802.11a chipset that guarantees delivery of video streams--including HDTV--to multiple devices over a wireless IP network. ViXS' technology enables products such as digital video recorder set-top boxes to reliably distribute multiple broadcast-quality video streams to any networked display device (such as HDTVs, plasma and LCD TV monitors, PDAs, web tablets, and personal computers) in the home.

ViXS Systems has developed technology for distributing broadcast-quality video across 802.11 wireless networks, providing manufacturers of consumer electronics, personal computers, and set-top boxes with a proven technology that operates with standards-based local area networks.

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