A little dot connecting...Cirrus no, Zoran yes
EASTECH also made waves when it announced its latest 6.1AV receiver at the 2000 CES. It was the
world's first 6.1AV receiver to sell for under USD600, a product that traditional retailers would have to sell
for as much as USD1,000. The receiver was produced together with Outlaw Audio, Inc., a company that
offers high quality audio, video and consurner electronic products via the Internet, and Zoran Corporation
which develops and markers integrated circults (ICs) and software for digital audio and video applications.
EASTECH's role in this partnership was to provide the design and engineering capabilities, and will be the
manufacturer of the receiver.
04-02-01
QDesign Corporation,
a leading provider of advanced digital audio compression solutions for
the Internet delivery, broadcast and new media markets, has established
an office in Mountain View, California, to support the company
rapidly expanding business development and sales engineering activities.
Senior Vice President of Professional Products Paul Goldberg, responsible
for directing product development, marketing and commercial deployment
of the QDesign professional product family, will also direct and manage
QDesignÕs Intellectual Property activities from the new location.
We are extremely pleased and excited at these developments,"
said Richard J. Beaton, President of QDesign Corp. "A base of operations
in Silicon Valley makes us more accessible to a rapidly growing number
of current and potential licensees, as well as provide a home for our
U.S. engineering team, as we continue our expansion there.
QDesign's recent acquisition of media security intellectual property complements
the company's existing portfolio of state-of-the-art digital audio compression
technologies and dovetails perfectly with Paul Goldberg's arrival. Added
Mr. Beaton, "Paul's wealth of experience adds considerably to our
existing knowledge base, and he will be invaluable in attracting engineers
of the highest caliber for our Silicon Valley Group. His decision to join
us was a strong vote of confidence in our ability to provide the most
flexible platform for the secure, profitable delivery of high quality
digital audio over any wired or wireless network and on any physical media.
Mr. Goldberg recently joined QDesign from Zoran Corporation, where he
was Vice President of Audio Products and Intellectual Properties. His
experience there and at Dolby Laboratories, where he was responsible for
directing the research, development and commercialization of the Dolby
Digital sound on film system, firmly supports QDesign's objective: to
provide the secure technologies needed to move the music industry from
a distribution model based on non-secure physical media to one based on
the combination of secure physical media and secure electronic distribution.
Mr. Goldberg holds a total of seventeen patents in film sound, optical
data storage, video image printing, medical ultrasonic imaging and medical
diagnostics. Seven additional patents, six related to the secure distribution
of entertainment content and one associated with the virtualization of
multichannel audio signals, are pending. He is an active member of AES,
With the release of the world's first real-time MPEG-2 audio compression
software in 1996 and the subsequent introduction of its own MP3, QDesign
Music and QDX technologies, QDesign has established itself as a leading
provider of the most advanced audio compression solutions in the broadcast,
new media and Internet delivery markets. From the inclusion of the QDesign
Music Codec in Apple QuickTime as the audio compression solution for Internet
streaming, multimedia authoring and digital music, to the cross-platform
MVP jukebox application, QDesign has received numerous industry accolades
for delivering the best web audio technology. QDesign's audio technologies
appear in hardware processors, digital audio production, automation and
distribution systems as well as consumer multimedia software. QDesign
is a founding member of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). For
more information on QDesign and its products, please visit:
