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AIW line updated with ATI ALL-IN-WONDER VE PCI VIA: chipset shipments decrease, C3 shipments double Creative announces I-Trigue 2.1 3300 sound system Samsung announces wide-format SyncMaster 172W Philips announces Sonic Edge 5.1 and Dynamic Edge 4.1 DPS: the new direct printing standard with Picture Transfer Protocol support AIW line updated with ATI ALL-IN-WONDER VE PCI Today ATI Technologies announced the release of new mainstream ALL-IN-WONDER VE on RADEON 7500, which is already being shipped in North America.   ALL-IN-WONDER VE features:
The software bundle includes: ATI MULTIMEDIA CENTER 7.9, Gemstar GuidePlus+, Pinnacle Studio 8 (ATI Version). The suggested price is $129.
VIA: chipset shipments decrease, C3 shipments double As the demand for motherboards reduced from the mid-November, chipset makers believe it won’t change at least until late January. According to provisional data, the decrease of VIA Technologies´ November chipset shipments will resul in 10% sales volume reduction comparing to October.At the same time, VIA expects the significant increase of C3 shipments, mainly due to the sales of new Eden platform, November C3 shipments are expected to double. SiS and Ali, they feel better about their November chipset shipments. I.e. SiS expects 10% growth, mainly due to delayed shipments of SiS648 and SiS651. ALi´s shipments grow due to products for notebooks. Source: The DigiTimes
Creative announces I-Trigue 2.1 3300 sound system Creative posted the specification of the original 2.1-ch. Creative I-Trigue 2.1 3300 sound system.
Each satellite features 9W RMS and has three titanium speakers. The 25W subwoofer has 6.5" bass speaker with phase inverter. The total peak power of Creative I-Trigue 2.1 3300 is 80W, the frequency range is 30Hz to 20Khz. Creative I-Trigue 2.1 3300 is supplied with the wired remote with headset jack, power switch, master and subwoofer volume control. The suggested price is $99.
 Samsung announces wide-format SyncMaster 172W Japanese branch of Samsung today started to accept orders for new wide-format SyncMaster 172W, announced at Comdex Fall 2002. As we missed the press release, let me briefly describe the novelty, especially the worldwide sales are to start within these days. 17" SyncMaster 172W supports 1280x768 (WXGA) resolution at 15:9 side ratio. Pixel size is 0.2895 mm, max. brightness — 450 cd/m, contrast — 400:1, response time – 25 ms, viewing angle – 140° horizontal and 110° vertical, line scan – 30-81kHz, frame scan – 56-75Hz. The monitor dimensions are 431x216x362.3 mm, weight – 4.9 kg. Max. energy consumption is 42W and 2W in standby. The model features analog and DVI-D interfaces, three Samsung MagicBright presets (text/Internet/multimedia). The announced price is Japan is about $520, however in USA SyncMaster 172W will cost about $700. Source: PC Watch
Philips announces Sonic Edge 5.1 and Dynamic Edge 4.1 Philips announced two new budget soundcards: Sonic Edge 5.1 (PSC605) and Dynamic Edge 4.1 (PSC 604).
5.1-ch. Philips Sonic Edge 5.1 supports QSound Labs´ QMSS 5.1 and EAX 2.0, features improved Sound Agent 2 software interface. It has digital S/PDIF, is supplied with MusicMatch Jukebox Plus, AudioPix, Acid Xpress, Windows XP/2000/Me/98SE drivers. The suggested price is 49.90 euro.
4.1-ch. Dynamic Edge 4.1 also supports EAX 2.0 and QMSS, features Sound Agent 2, digital S/PDIF. The card is supplied with MusicMatch Jukebox Plus, AudioPix, Acid Xpress, Windows XP/2000/Me/98SE drivers. The suggested price is 29.90 euro. Source: Tweakers.net
DPS: the new direct printing standard with Picture Transfer Protocol support As you know, there hasn’t been unified solution for direct digital printing without PC before. Each company was trying to push its own standard. But it seems that standardization visited this field as well: today six companies, including Canon, Fuji Photo Film, HP, Olympus Optical, Seiko Epson, and Sony offered new DPS unified standard for maximal direct digital printing quality independently of the camera and printer brand.Canon, HP, Seiko Epson, Sony launched the initial developments, Fuji and Olympus have joined them later. These six companies plan to advance DPS as the industrial standard of digital photography. Currently DPS exists as the DPS v.0.9, the first "clean" version is being developed. DPS specs define the application level exchange protocol and do not depend on the physical media for using it with other prospective interfaces in the future. DPS 1.0, to be released, defines USB as the transfer interface and Picture Transfer Protocol as the data transfer protocol. Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) was developed by International Imaging Industry Association as the basic standard for image transfers. To obtain quality prints user will be need to use the DPS-enabled devices independently of makers.
 DPS will support:
Print presets will include:
The digital camera will provide the following on the LCD:
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