San Jose, CA–(October 3, 2005)–Silicon Optix’s Realta HQV has received the Five-Star DisplayMate Best Video Hardware award, and will be included in their 2005 Best Video Hardware Guide.
“During our extensive testing of five high-end HDTVs we found that the Silicon Optix HQV processors provided major enhancements in picture quality. Their 1080i motion adaptive de-interlacing and scaling is very impressive. In the Jury portion of the tests both novice and expert panelists independently identified picture quality improvements in the HDTVs that were driven by the Silicon Optix processors,” said Dr. Raymond Soneira, President of DisplayMate Technologies.
The Realta video processor DSP chip originates from Teranex’s $60,000 broadcast and postproduction platforms. Teranex’s software algorithms run on Realta’s fully programmable, trillion-operations-per-second video processing engine to deliver a new standard in image quality, a standard Silicon Optix is calling Hollywood Quality Video, or HQV.
The awards are based solely on image and picture quality excellence and are recommended as a comparative standard of excellence for consumers, corporate buyers, reviewers, test labs, and manufacturers alike. DisplayMate is an industry standard used by over 200 publications in 50 countries for testing and evaluating video hardware.
For more information on Realta HQV please visit www.hqv.com.
About Silicon Optix
Silicon Optix Inc., a privately held fabless semiconductor company, is the leading supplier of advanced programmable video/image digital processing integrated circuits (ICs). The company’s products are driving three unique technologies into a broad range of markets: a patented, powerful, array-based programmable DSP for digital video that can perform one trillion operations/second enabling real-time pixel-by-pixel processing of HDTV; industry-leading and Hollywood proven software algorithms from Teranex; and proprietary eWARP geometry processing. Silicon Optix’s mission is to leverage these innovative technologies into ICs that will enable the next generation of digital video/image capture, transmission, distribution, editing, storage, and display solutions, with an initial focus on large-area digital displays including front and rear projection. Silicon Optix is headquartered in San Jose, California, with operations in Hanover, Germany; Orlando, Florida; Taipei, Taiwan; Shanghai, China; and Toronto, Canada. For more information about Silicon Optix, please visit the company’s website at www.siliconoptix.com.
