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CD/Digital Audio Systems - Oak Technology announced a
strategic relationship with PortalPlayer to provide platform
solutions for PC-Free recording and playback of digital media
content to consumer electronics manufacturers. The companies
intend to jointly develop a reference design for a next- generation
digital media player/recorder, as well as future digital music
products and technologies. Initial collaboration will focus
on development of a reference design for recordable optical
storage products that support direct encoding of digital audio
content in MP3 file formats, without the need for a personal
computer. The reference design will incorporate Oak's recently
introduced OTI-8001 consumer CD recordable controller and
PortalPlayer's Tango digital media platform, which is based
on the industry's first single chip embedded controller capable
of real-time MP3 recording and playback [-more-]
Kenwood
Doing Dolby Pro Logic II Surround-Sound - Creating 5.1
channel surround-sound from traditional 2-channel stereo recordings
is now possible thanks to Dolby Pro Logic II Audio technology,
first available to the market from Cirrus Logic Inc. in its
Crystal CS49326 DSP audio decoder chip. The chip is being
used by Kenwood USA in its new Pro Logic II A/V receivers.
Dolby Pro Logic II is a new surround sound algorithm that
is backwards compatible with its predecessor Dolby Pro Logic
and provides new music and movie modes to create a higher
bandwidth stereo rear surround sound. The market leader in
audio decoders for the A/V receiver market, shipping to seven
of the top 10 consumer brands, Cirrus Logic is the first manufacturer
to provide the new Pro Logic II decoding technology with its
Crystal audio decoders [-more-]
Marantz
ER3000 Home Cinema System - The ER3000 DVD Home Cinema
System includes an integrated center unit combining a DVD
player, an A/V amplifier and an AM/FM tuner as well as 5.1-channel
amplifier and speaker system. The Cinemarium features 2-way
satellite speakers and subwoofer, as well as built-in MPEG-2
AAC decoding for BS digital broadcast. The DVD unit can play
CD-R/CD-RW disks, in addition to DVD, CD, Video CD and CD-DA
disks. The ER3000 DVD system produces high-quality sound with
a Tripath Class-T 50W digital amplifier and built-in Dolby
Digital, Dolby Pro Logic and DTS and Circle Surround decoding.
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