Micronas' Advanced Video Solutions Macrovision Certified (0120)

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 10, 2001- Micronas (SWX: MASN, Neuer Markt Frankfurt: MNSN) announced today that it has secured Macrovision certification for its Video Pixel Decoder VPX 3226E. The Micronas chip incorporates a certified detection apparatus to detect and decode Macrovision protected analog video, allowing content owners to protect their videocassettes, digital Pay-Per-View programs and Digital Video Disks (DVD) from unauthorized recording.

"Copy protection and digital rights management technologies have become increasingly important, especially in the new digital set-top box and PVR markets," commented Kai Scheffer, director marketing PC peripherals at Micronas. "All new digital recording devices require Macrovision certification, so to address that market and satisfy our OEM customers' needs, Micronas now offers a Macrovision certified product."

The VPX 3226E is a full-feature video acquisition chip for consumer, video and multimedia applications. All of the processing necessary to convert an analog video signal into a digital component stream has been integrated in the chip. The Micronas decoder chip is aimed at digital video technologies for DVD-recording devices and hard disk based video recorders such as personal video recorders (PVR).