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C-Media and Dolby make it easier and more cost effective for PC users to have a rich Dolby Digital audio experience from more sound sources than ever before. |
| Taipei, Taiwan –
January 8, 2003 – C-Media Electronics, Inc. announced that its latest engineering
development, the world’s first software-based real-time Dolby Digital 5.1 encoder for
the CMI9739 6CH AC97 CODEC, has obtained a certification from Dolby Laboratories. This
achievement, which solidifies their expertise in audio solutions, allows C-Media to
provide its customers with a fully complete 3D audio solution, including real-time Dolby
Digital 5.1 encoder, and C-Media’s patented Xear 3D™ Sound and SPEAKER
SHIFTER™ technologies. “This real-time implementation of Dolby Digital Encoder technology using software will open new entertainment possibilities to millions of PC users, ” said John Chiang, Deputy Chief Engineer at C-Media. ”This software implementation of the real-time Dolby Digital encoder is so efficient that it takes only 7% of the CPU consumption from a Pentium 4 processor”. “With this implementation, existing and future customers who are using C-Media’s PCI or AC97 audio chips can obtain high-quality Dolby Digital audio from the S/PDIF output much easier and from more sound sources than ever before”, commented Eric Cheng, President & CEO of C-Media. “Better yet, not only is the digital signal free from the usual problems present in traditional analog outputs, such as distortion and noise, but it also reduces the number of wires connected between PC and a HI-FI audio system. The real-time Dolby Digital Encoder technology digitally transmits data from the PC to a home theater system via a single RCA cable, instead of the three pairs of cables used with multichannel analog outputs in the past”. “By creating a software implementation of the real-time Dolby Digital encoder technology C-Media has made it possible PC users to enjoy more entertainment than ever before in multichannel audio”, said Greg Rodehau, Director of PC and Games Technology Marketing for Dolby Laboratories. “This development marks a new milestone in the advancement of the real-time Dolby Digital encoder because for the first time Intel based PCs will be able to take advantage of this exciting multichannel audio technology.” About C-Media C-Media received “Award for Industrial Technology Advancement” from the Ministry of Economic Affairs R.O.C., for its dedication and contribution to the audio chip market in 2001. In June 2002, C-Media received “Best of Computex Taipei 2002” for the CMI9739 6CH AC97 CODEC with Xear 3D™ Sound Technology from Nikkei Byte and Nikkei WinPC. Later in December, 2002, the chipset again received “Outstanding I.T. Applications/Products Award” from The Committee for The R.O.C. Information Month. In addition to these honors, C-Media has also been granted patents in many different countries worldwide. C-Media Electronics Inc. |
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