Press Release

2008 International CES Preview
Anchor Bay
Booth South 2 26134

Anchor Bay Technologies, Inc.
983 University Ave.
Building A
Los Gatos, CA 95032

Agency Contact:
Kristin Eckmann
Wall Street Communications
Tel: +1 303-840-4428
E-mail: kristin@wallstcom.com

Product Photo: www.wallstcom.com/AnchorBay/VP50Pro_front.zip

Company Overview

Anchor Bay designs and manufactures advanced digital semiconductor and system-level solutions for next-generation digital television and high-resolution digital video products. The company's proprietary Video Reference Series™ (VRS™) technology allows Anchor Bay to offer a wide range of advanced video processing solutions that greatly improve image quality on large-screen HDTV home theater systems and various other video displays. The company's product offerings include Precision Video Scaling™, Precision Deinterlacing™, Progressive Re-Processing™ (PReP™), color correction, detail enhancement, and noise reduction solutions.

Anchor Bay makes its VRS technology available in semiconductor products for OEMs and in its award-winning DVDO®iScan™ line of video processing systems for end users. The company is dedicated to providing leading-edge video technologies that will enable current and next-generation ICs and systems to deliver reference-quality images across a wide range of displays and sources. Privately held, Anchor Bay maintains its headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif.

Products on Display at CES 2008

DVDO®iScan™ VP50^PRO
At CES 2008, Anchor Bay will showcase its award-winning DVDO iScan VP50^PRO, the world's first video processor to achieve THX certification. THX certification signifies that a product has met a series of rigorous theater-quality standards, thus helping customers identify it as a high-quality video product. The VP50^PRO is also the first video processor to use HDMI 1.3 receiver/transmitter chips, which allow users to connect other HDMI-compliant 1.3 devices that support high-resolution audio formats and Deep Color™, available on some newer sources like HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and PS3.

The VP50^PRO is the culmination of all of Anchor Bay's Video Reference Series™ (VRS™) technologies, including Mosquito Noise Reduction, Fine Detail Enhancement, and Edge Enhancement, which greatly improve the quality of compressed and low-resolution content coming from STBs, DVRs, DVDs, IPTV, and other digital media devices when viewed on high-resolution displays.

The VP50^PRO is also ISFccc certified and incorporates the necessary controls to allow an ISF calibrator to lock in ISF day and night presets for customers. The modes ensure that the picture controls are properly adjusted, providing the customer with the most accurate picture available in various lighting environments.

ABT2010 IC
Also on display will be the ABT2010, Anchor Bay's second-generation video processing integrated circuit (IC) designed for format conversion applications in HDTVs, DVDs, HD-DVDs, Blu-Ray player/recorders, and AV receivers. The chip features all of the processing power of Anchor Bay's Video Reference Series™ (VRS™) technologies, including VRS Precision Deinterlacing™ that provides five-field motion adaptive and edge adaptive processing for an artifact-free viewing experience; and 10-bit VRS Precision Video Scaling II™ that can independently scale an image horizontally and vertically to achieve outstanding picture quality for today's high-definition video displays.

The new chip is also Anchor Bay's first IC to feature VRS Progressive Re-Processing™ (PReP™) technology, a breakthrough processing method that reverts the progressive video signal output from source equipment such as DVD players, AV receivers, and set-top boxes to its original interlaced format and then converts the interlaced signal to progressive format using Precision Deinterlacing to eliminate jaggies, combing, and other degrading effects. PReP technology allows 480p, 576p, 1080p/50, 1080p/60, and other progressive formats that are originally interlaced to be processed by this method.