We here at Toob will rarely tout a press release. But, we reserve the right to do so if it means a great deal to us as end-users, investors in the HD and display space, or if the text or companies involved just-damned-well merit a heartfelt nod.
This situation is all of the above.
The fine folks at Silicon Optix have been chosen by Red Herring as "One of the Top Ten Private Chip Companies To Watch."
You can read the release here (if you are interested in the subjective and metrical data involved or such.)
But the key quote that came out of the editors at Red Herring was a description of Silicon
Optix's technology as "cool video-processing chips that squeeze
high-quality images out of videos in the standard-definition format."
To learn more, you could go check out the wonderfully pricey Denon 5910 with Silicon Optix's Realta HQV chip in it (only $3,500. US.) The incredible 5910 makes the Denon-fairly-high-end-DVD-player-of-record in the House Of Toob look sad. [Sniffle.] Download a pdf info sheet on the Denon 5910 courtesy of our sponsors now?
Then you might go read a piece from Kevin Hunt, at the Hartford Courant that did some justice to Silicon Optix a couple of days ago...
<<snipped from Hartford Courant>>Optimum Multi-Tasker? Chip's 1 Trillion A Second
Silicon
Optix's Realta HQV chip could be the
next little thing in high-definition televisions and DVD players. This
little bit o' silicon has the same video-processing firepower as
Teranex's $60,000 3RU Xantus, a broadcast industry standard.<<snip ends..
Given the chance also take a gander at Silicon Optix's HQV Benchmark DVD ($30 here unless you enter the sales code GoHQV and they take off ten bucks.) This DVD is clearly designed to show off the HQV chipsets, but really gives whatever is currently making jaggies on your system -or- getting rid of them, a workout.
Here's another article about the Realta HQV chipset and the DVD product called Judging Quality. (Dated now, so the answer to the sell- the-DVD-to-the-public question is a decided YES!)
Either way? The nod from Red Herring is deserved. We at Toob have seen the Teranex units at work, the Denon 5910, and the incredible number of awards that Silicon Optix has garnered in the past couple of years... Keep your eyes peeled for their tech or their stock or both.
While you are at it? These guys deserve the exposure. Digg this story? It'll move it to the front page of digg.com and give it wider circulation. Dig? Dug? Deal.
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