Trident Announces New-Generation HiDTV Pro Family to Bring Uncompromising Video Quality to HDTV

Trident Announces New-Generation HiDTV Pro Family to Bring Uncompromising Video Quality to HDTV

Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRID – News), a worldwide leader in the development of advanced digital TV technology for the consumer digital video marketplace, today announced its second-generation HiDTV™ Pro Digital Video Processor Family. Tailored for the era of high-definition content, the HiDTV™ Pro Family has the ability to simultaneously decode two high-definition video streams and drive the most demanding high-definition video displays.

The HiDTV™ Pro Family achieves a breakthrough in high-definition video quality by incorporating a sixth-generation, twelve-bit implementation of Trident's DCRe™ video processor. Fabricated using 0.13um technology, the HiDTV™ Pro Video Processor Family sets a new standard for image quality, features and total system development cost in the increasingly competitive high-definition digital TV market.

Dr. Jung Herng Chang, President of Trident said, “By integrating our sixth-generation DCRe™ video processor with dual-channel, high-definition digital decoding and high-definition display support, the HiDTV™ Pro family meets the demands of our Tier-1 OEM customers for uncompromising video quality and aggressive system-level cost reduction. Leveraging our mature, production-proven digital television software developed with our first-generation HiDTV™ products, the new-generation HiDTV™ Pro family will offer TV OEMs the ability to rapidly develop compelling high-definition digital TV systems.”