Innovative Line of Chips Give Consumers Rich Digital Experience by Supporting DivX Video Across Multiple Devices
SAN DIEGO & EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, Jun 05, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Third graph, second sentence should read: “The ability of the NXP processors to support DivX decoding …” (sted: “The ability of the NXP processors to support DivX encoding and decoding …”)
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DIVX CERTIFIES NXP’S MEDIA PROCESSORS TO POWER IP SET-TOP BOXES, DIGITAL MEDIA ADAPTERS AND PORTABLE PLAYERS
Innovative Line of Chips Give Consumers Rich Digital Experience by Supporting DivX Video across Multiple Devices
DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) and NXP Semiconductors, an independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced the DivX Certification of a series of processors designed to power a variety of device categories, including IP set-top boxes (STBs), digital media adapters, personal media players and in-car media players. Specifically, the NXP Nexperia(TM) processors PNX0190, PNX0191, PNX9520, PNX1501, PNX1502, PNX1503, and PNX1520 are now DivX Certified to provide consumers with an enriched digital media experience by supporting playback of the high-quality DivX Media Format on consumer electronic devices.
All NXP Nexperia DivX Certified chips will play back DivX video content at Home Theater resolutions and will include DivX digital rights management technology, enabling compatibility with download-to-own video services. The NXP processors are among the first DivX Certified chipsets for the IP set-top box market, which will provide another way for end users to enjoy DivX content from the Internet or their PCs directly on their televisions.
“NXP continues to offer our customers new and innovative solutions that provide richer experiences – whether it be recording, viewing or sharing video content,” said Menno Kleingeld, Senior Marketing Director, Set-Top Box and Home Media Devices at NXP Semiconductors. “The ability of the NXP processors to support DivX decoding, in addition to many other audio and video formats, highlights the power and flexibility of the Nexperia architecture.”
“Certification of the NXP chipsets represents the expansion of the DivX common media language to important new device segments, like STBs and digital media adapters, which will provide users with the seamless ability to enjoy digital content anytime and anywhere,” said Kevin Hell, President, DivX, Inc. “We’re pleased to work with NXP to enable new categories of DivX Certified consumer devices that will meet the global demand for a high-quality DivX media experience.”
Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone a rigorous testing program to ensure interoperability, security and visual quality. DivX Certified products enable consumers to create, play and share high-quality video content across a range of devices and platforms. Over 90 million DivX Certified devices from a variety of manufacturers have shipped worldwide.
For more information on DivX Certification, visit www.divx.com/certification. For more information on NXP Semiconductors, see www.nxp.com.
About DivX, Inc.
DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 200 million times since January 2003, including over 60 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application, which is distributed from our website, www.divx.com. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP is a top 10 semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has 37,000 employees working in more than 20 countries and posted sales of EUR 5 billion in 2006. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute “forward-looking statements.” Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding DivX’s visibility within the investment community. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause DivX’s actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the risk that customer use of DivX technology may not grow as anticipated, the risk that anticipated market opportunities may not materialize at expected levels, or at all, the risk that the Company’s activities may not result in the growth of profitable revenue, risks and uncertainties related to the maintenance and strength of the DivX brand; DivX’s ability to penetrate existing and new markets; the effects of competition; DivX’s dependence on its licensees and partners; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of DivX’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 15, 2007. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. DivX is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.