RIDGEFIELD PARK, July 23, 2008 – Samsung Electronics America Inc., the leader in the U.S. digital television market, lets consumers view PC-content on a Samsung HDTV with the retail launch of the company’s MediaLive adaptor. Samsung’s MediaLive delivers digital content (including HD content) in real-time from Windows Media Center on a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate operating systems to the big screen of a Samsung HDTV via a wireless or wired home network. From photos, music, feature films, home movies, and live and recorded TV programs, Samsung’s MediaLive is the ideal plug-and-play complement to most 2008-model Samsung HDTVs.

“The PC is quickly becoming the hub for entertainment in the home and Samsung’s MediaLive gives consumers the freedom to enjoy and manage movies, photos, and music on the bigger screen of an HDTV,” said John Revie, Vice President of Visual Display Marketing at Samsung Electronics America. “Samsung’s MediaLive opens up a constantly expanding world of content for consumers, adding yet another connectivity option to the latest Samsung HDTVs.”

Easily connected to an existing wireless or wired Internet connection, Samsung’s MediaLive allows PCs running Windows Vista or Windows Vista Home Premium to stream a personal movie, photo, music, and video collection to any 2008-model Samsung HDTV in the home with an HDMI-CEC connection. With the ability to display content at up to Full HD resolution and support for a range of video, audio, and image codecs such as AC3, H.264, JPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMA, and WMV, consumers will be able to enjoy an impressive variety of video and audio files using Samsung’s MediaLive. Instead of crowding around a 15-inch PC monitor to share their latest music or movies, users can transfer the same PC content in real-time and share it on a 50-inch HDTV with a group of friends. One PC can stream content to up-to five Samsung MediaLive boxes connected to a TV through a home network - providing total access to entertainment from most 2008-model Samsung HDTV’s in the home.

Beyond streaming personal entertainment, Samsung’s MediaLive gives consumers access to a wide range of entertainment options including online services such as Vongo, MovieLink, Showtime TV, XM Radio, and FOX Sports, as well as the ability to browse through top news stories from Reuters and NPR. Additionally, in the U.S., Windows Media Center features the Internet TV beta program, which offers access to viral videos, news stories, movie trailers, sports clips, cast interviews, movie concerts and more. For access to live and recorded TV through the Samsung MediaLive, a simple TV tuner can be connected to the PC, turning it into a powerful DVR with the ability to watch and record favorite television shows and movies. In conjunction with FOX Sports, consumers are able to access SportsLounge to quickly view up-to-date sports scores, statistics and schedules - a perfect tool for any fantasy sports fan.

“Microsoft is pleased to be working with an industry leader such as Samsung, which shares our commitment to expanding TV entertainment options through Windows Media Center,” said Ron Pessner, General Manager of the Connected TV Division at Microsoft Corp. “We’re seeing the industry recognize the value of delivering these types of integrated solutions that allow consumers to extend pictures, music and more from their Windows Vista Home Premium- or Ultimate-based PC to the TV.”

Employing the simple-to-navigate user interface and integrated electronic program guide of Windows Media Center, content browsing and playback is easily controlled using the arrow and enter buttons available on either the included MediaLive Simple Remote, or the Samsung HDTV’s remote control.

Using the included mounting bracket, the compact device can be easily mounted to the rear of select Samsung flat-panel TVs for a clutter-free home theater setup. Operational commands are sent to the MediaLive via the HDMI-CEC port for a high quality, single-cable connection to the HDTV. The device connects to a PC via a RJ45 connected LAN cable, or wirelessly through a built-in 802.11 a/b/g/n receiver.

The Samsung MediaLive will be available in August 2008.

About Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Headquartered in Ridgefield Park, NJ, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., markets a broad range of award-winning, digital consumer electronics and home appliance products, including HDTVs, home theater systems, MP3 players, digital imaging products, refrigerators and washing machines. A recognized innovation leader in consumer electronics design and technology, Samsung is the HDTV market leader in the U.S. Please visit www.samsung.com for more information.

1. Decide how often you intend to use the system. Inexpensive systems simply plug in to your car’s cigarette lighter and are small enough to store in your glove compartment, but they’re not as user-friendly.
2. Consider the layout of your car. Some systems come with a monitor that displays a map. The monitor is commonly installed on the dashboard or on a pedestal extending from the dashboard. In some cars, such an installation may block air vents or make it somewhat uncomfortable for a passenger to enter or exit the vehicle or sit in the passenger seat.
3. Select a system that features multiple ways of getting to your destination. This can include by address, by intersection, by a personal address book or via a location selected directly from the map.
4. Look for a system that gives you vocal as well as graphical directions. The systems that use a map and monitor include arrows that show you the direction of a turn and also indicate where your car is on the map in relation to the destination. Other systems use the head unit or radio to display the name of the street on which you are to make a turn or on which you are traveling. Both of these systems also give you verbal directions as you approach a turn.
5. Select a system that includes point of interest data. Most GPS systems include locations of airports and other transportation services, ATMs and banks, restaurants, hotels and a host of other sites.
6. Choose a system that offers frequent updates of the point-of-interest data.
7. Consider installation time if you are working on a tight budget. Systems that rely on maps displayed on monitors are more complicated and take longer to install than other types of systems.

Certainly one of the most commonly purchased and replaced pieces of the car audio system is the CD player. People believe that if they replace the CD player in their car audio system that they will have better results and have a better audio system. While this is not necessarily true, it is important that individuals have quality CD players so that they can build a quality audio system. CD players are the means by which music is transferred to an audio system so that it can be turned into music. It is important for individuals to have a quality CD player so that can music is transferred to their amplifier and speakers with a quality that will not distort or ruin the sound.

Car Stereo Amplifiers

One of the most important pieces to an audio system is the amplifier. Amplifiers are important because they are devices that change or increase the signal or quality of a sound wave. Basically, the amplifier is the thing in an audio system that allows the music to be played loudly without getting distorted or without sounding of poor quality. A good amplifier can make your audio system sound very professional. A good amplifier is the best way to make a good impression and is a very important base for a good audio system.

As part of its “Operation Boombox” campaign to quiet noisy car stereos and loud exhausts, Joliet police have issued more than 110 tickets in recent weeks.

That’s almost half of the roughly 250 tickets issued for such noise violations in the city since the start of the year, Police Chief Fred Hayes said.

Set up last year, the campaign targets intersections where residents have complained of car noise. Officers stand 75 feet away from the intersection and listen for the thump of car stereos that are too loud and the thunder of noisy exhausts.

“We attend neighborhood meetings with our community policing officers and ask what the issues are,” Hayes said. “By far, this is one of the highest complaints. Residents continually complain about loud music disturbing them at all different hours.”

Last year, police issued 300 tickets for car-related noise violations. In addition to writing out $75 tickets to violators, police also tow the offending vehicle, adding another $275.

If police stationed 75 feet away can hear noise from a car at an intersection the motorist can be ticketed. State law prohibits cars from emitting noise that can be heard from that distance, Hayes said.

With the resident’s permission, officers set up surveillance details on front porches or simply pull out lawn chairs and sit on the sidewalk. Once an offending vehicle passes by, the officers radio the vehicle’s description to another officer waiting in a marked squad car.

“Most people driving don’t pay attention to [the officers],” Hayes said. “They say they saw the officers standing on the sidewalk or near a front porch but felt the officer was doing something else and never even thought of turning down their music.”

Hayes said details are set up at all hours, with some as early as 8 a.m. and some after midnight.

Although police are still issuing tickets for noise violations, residents have told officers their streets are somewhat quieter, said Lt. Tab Jensen.

In at least one case, getting ticketed made an offender change her ways: The woman called to say she returned her 2,000-watt car stereo to help pay her fines, Hayes said.

“She said she wasn’t going to have such a loud stereo in her car anymore and that she didn’t realize that she was disturbing other people,” Hayes said.

EE Times reports: Analog vendors boost sound quality in portables

As a growing number of countries adopt legislation that prohibits the use of handheld mobile phones while driving, demand for hands-free kits and wireless headsets is on the rise. The challenging sound environment within automobiles, however, places an increased burden on the audio processing systems within those devices. And with mobile phone users struggling to hear and be heard in noisy environments, system designers are working hard to integrate more-advanced audio processing into portable audio devices.

Mobile products must accomplish these tasks in smaller form factors with better battery life, as well as with echo cancellation and noise suppression functionality. Analog IC makers such as Analog Devices, Maxim Integrated Products, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and On Semiconductor are responding with audio chips that improve sound quality by driving louder volume from speakers and removing the output frequency distortions common with DSP- or microprocessor-software-based systems.

One technique is to use a boost converter to drive higher output power. In May, TI (Dallas) rolled the TPA2014D1, which provides output drive capability of up to 1.5 watts per channel across an 8-ohm load, ensuring that volume is maintained even when the battery discharges to its minimum voltage.

TI has also fielded the TPA2016D2, which provides a 1.7-W drive capability across an 8-ohm load. TI said the Class-D amplifier is the first stereo device to incorporate dynamic range compression for automatically adjusting the audio to the desired loudness range while protecting the speaker and preventing clipping and distortion.

On Semiconductor (Phoenix) recently announced the latest member in its BelaSigna family of audio processors, formerly offered by AMI Semiconductor. Marketed under the brand name BelaSigna 300, the high-fidelity audio processors target portable communication devices. The dual-core architecture lets multiple advanced audio algorithms, such as echo cancellation and noise reduction, run simultaneously while maintaining ultralow power consumption. A 24-bit open-programmable DSP core and a configurable accelerator signal processing engine deliver the flexibility of a generic DSP with the power consumption and size of a fixed-function ASIC, On Semi said. Advanced analog audio inputs, combined with the 24-bit signal path, boost audio quality.

Claiming to have lowered the bar for power consumption, National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has brought out the first device in a line of audio products incorporating far-field noise suppression technology. The technology delivers more natural-sounding voice quality by eliminating the output-frequency distortions and other audio artifacts common with DSP- or microprocessor-software-based systems that use subband frequency processing algorithms to implement noise suppression.

National’s PowerWise LMV1088 dual-input microphone array amplifier reduces background noise and improves voice communication clarity in mobile phones, two-way radios and powered headsets. It consumes one-tenth the power (1 mA) of comparable DSP- or microprocessor-software-based systems.

As speaker apps become more compact, stereophonic sound quality is jeopardized. The 3-D stereo enhancement in the MAX9775 from Maxim Integrated Products emulates stereo sound in situations where the speakers must be positioned close together. Wave interference cancels the left channel in the vicinity of the listener’s right ear and vice versa, yielding an “apparent” separation between the speakers that is a factor of four or greater than the actual physical separation, Maxim said.

The part integrates a mono 80-mW DirectDrive receiver amplifier, a stereo 80-mW Direct-Drive headphone amp, and a Class D stereo 1.5-W audio power amp. Maxim (Sunnyvale, Calif.) also offers the MAX9776, which provides the mono 80-mW receiver amp, the stereo 80-mW DirectDrive headphone amplifier and a mono Class D amp.

Analog Devices’ SSM2317 is a fully integrated, high-efficiency Class-D audio amp. The application circuit requires a minimum of external components and operates from a single 2.5-V to 5.5-V supply. It is capable of delivering 3 W of continuous output power with less than 1percent THD + N driving a 3-ohm load from a 5.0-V supply. The SSM2317’s high-efficiency, low-noise modulation scheme does not require external LC output filters. The modulation continues to provide high efficiency even at low output power. Spread-spectrum pulse density modulation provides lower EMI radiated emissions than is provided by other Class-D architectures.

Pop-and-click suppression circuitry minimizes voltage glitches at the output during turn-on and turn-off.

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