Wave Issue 0353 03/04/04 Article 1-02

*** Zoran's Generation9 Digital TV ICs Power LCoS -Based HDTVs from
Brillian
(March 1)

Brillian Corporation announced that it will use Zoran Corporation's
Generation9 family of integrated DTV ICs, software and development
platforms in its new 720p liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) Gen II high-
definition televisions (HDTVs).

Integration of the Zoran Generation9 ICs enables Brillian television
products to comply with both the FCC mandate to integrate ATSC
capability in terrestrial televisions and the CE-NCTA's Plug-n-Play
Unidirectional OpenCable requirements.

Brillian will utilize Generation9 features such as CableCARD Copy
protection, MPEG-II transport demultiplexing, MP@HL video decompression,
ZDX deinterlacing & video post processing.

The HDTVs use Brillian's patent-pending LCoS Gen II technology and will
offer image quality with contrast ratios up to 2000:1. Brillian's
reflective, active-matrix-driven liquid crystal displays feature about
one million, 12-micron-square picture elements, each of which displays
more than 256 gray levels.
The technology supports a fill factor greater than 93% and has a three-
panel architecture-based design, along with a response time less than 10
milliseconds.