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Zoran Powers Siemens' New Gigaset Family of Terrestrial Set-Top Boxes With Twin-Tuner Digital Video Recording

Posted on: Monday, 21 May 2007, 09:00 CDT

Zoran Corporation (NASDAQ: ZRAN) announced that its SupraTV(R) processor powers new families of Siemens free-to-air terrestrial set-top boxes products supporting integrated twin-tuner Digital Video Recording of two simultaneous programs.

Zoran's integrated software delivers a rich graphical user interface, over-air-download support, and makes it easy for consumers to save high quality recordings of favorite programs to an integrated hard drive. Zoran-based products also support fast forward, rewind, skip ahead, skip back, pause, and other recording features.

"Zoran's SupraTV(R) processor provides the high quality technology needed to support our premium Gigaset M665 T Digital Video Recording models. Close cooperation with Zoran has enabled us to deliver a rich easy-to-use interface that provides the quality our customers expect from a Siemens product. We look forward to extending our partnership with Zoran to more products," said Juergen Knopp, Head of Product Management Home Media, at Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices GmbH & Co. KG.

"Zoran is proud that Siemens selected the SupraTV(R) processor for our twin-tuner digital video recording technology including such functionality as timeshifting and one-click recording capability. Support for frequent channel time updates, such as that in the Spanish model, also significantly improves the user experience," said Eric Schiff, director of standard definition television products, Zoran Corporation.

Zoran's SupraTV(R) processors integrate a MIPS32 CPU, programmable multi-stream transport demultiplexer with conditional access, flexible audio DSP supporting MPEG and WMA audio standards, MPEG video decoder, with a 2D graphics engine and digital video encoder. With a wide array of system interfaces, the SupraTV(R) processors fully support single and twin-tuner digital video recording, and decoded legacy analog signals in a digital television environment, while a programmable guest bus enables glueless connections to storage media or peripheral devices including Common Interface.

The SupraTV(R) processor product line with supporting reference designs, integrated development environments, and proven silicon software libraries are available for qualified Zoran customers.

Siemens Gigaset M665 T Personal Video Recorder Features:

 --  Twin-tuner PVR: Able to record two simultaneous programs --  Integrated Hard Disk Drive (80 GB) --  PVR functionality (timeshifting, one-click recording) --  Sincroguia TV(R) featured by InOut      

About Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices

Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices GmbH & Co. KG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG. The company focuses on the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of the full range of Siemens Gigaset products, including cordless phones, home media devices and broadband products and services which enable seamless, integrated communication solutions for operators and consumers. The company operates worldwide with a fiscal year's revenue stream (September 30, 2006) of approximately 960 million euros according to U.S. GAAP.

More about Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices at http://www.siemens.com/gigaset

Please find additional press releases, press photos, datasheets and footage material for download at www.siemens.com/gigaset/press

About Zoran Corporation

Zoran Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is a leading provider of digital solutions in the growing digital entertainment and digital imaging markets. With two decades of expertise developing and delivering digital signal processing technologies, Zoran has pioneered high-performance digital audio and video, imaging applications and Connect and Share technologies for the digital home. Zoran's proficiency in integration delivers major benefits for OEM customers, including greater capabilities within each product generation, reduced system costs, and shorter time to market. Zoran-based DVD, digital camera, DTV, multimedia mobile phone, and multifunction printer products have received recognition for excellence and are now in millions of homes and offices worldwide. With headquarters in the U.S. and operations in Canada, China, England, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, Zoran may be contacted on the World Wide Web at www.zoran.com or at 408-523-6500.

Zoran, the Zoran Logo and SupraTV are trademarks or registered trademarks of Zoran Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in the United States or other countries. All other names and brands may be claimed as property of others.

 Contact Information: Betty Watkins Zoran Corporation 408-523-4373 Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=3D7F252731A90493  

SOURCE: Zoran Corporation

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