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VIA and QSound Announce Licensing Agreement for Audio Technology
Technology partnership leverages high performance line of VIA
Vinyl Envy24 Audio Controllers to deliver a spectacular audio experience
Taipei, Taiwan, December 3 2004, - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading
innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform
solutions, today announced a license agreement with QSound Labs for
their leading edge audio technologies to further enhance VIA Vinyl
Audio solutions.
Under the agreement, VIA will bring together its award winning
Vinyl Audio Controllers with QSound’s unique audio enhancement technologies
and audio-processing algorithms that delivers a ready to market solutions
for VIA’s audio partners. Powered by VIA Vinyl Audio Hardware, QSound
offers unmatched technologies that transforms the PC Audio experience
with enhancements for games, music, and movies as well as advanced
feature control that allows users to fully customize their audio
experience.
“In order to best compliment our advanced Audio Controller technology,
we are very happy to be working with QSound as we strongly believe
they offer the most comprehensive audio software features with stellar
performance,” commented Steve Chen, Executive Assistant to the CEO,
and head of VIA Audio & Video Division, VIA Technologies, Inc.
“This technology partnership will enable VIA’s Audio partners to
offer PC audio solutions with unmatched quality, further defining
products integrating VIA Vinyl Audio solutions as the unparalleled
leader in audio for the PC.”
“We are very proud to be working with VIA, as we believe that this
partnership will allow customers to truly experience the strengths
of QSound’s audio technologies together with VIA’s acclaimed Audio
Hardware portfolio,” commented David Gallagher, president, CEO, QSound
Labs. “As PC users increasingly use their computers to experience
their multimedia content, features such as QSound’s patented Q3D,
QXpander, and QEM technologies will allow users to experience audio
on their PC in ways they never thought possible.”
QSound Technologies:
» Q3D: Complete DirectSound, DirectSound3D, A3D and I3DL2-compatible
digital audio mix engine with advanced 3D positioning, including
2D to 3D remix for non 3D games, for headphones and 2 to 7.1 channel
speaker systems
» QEM: EAX and EAX2.0-compatible acoustic environment simulation,
for headphones and 2 to 7.1 channel speaker systems
» QXpander: Mono to 3D and stereo to 3D stereo sound stage synthesis
and enhancement for headphones and stereo speakers
» QVerb: reverberation optimized for music and movies, for all
configurations
» QEqualizer: 8 band equalizer
About VIA Audio
VIA has developed a broad spectrum of silicon solutions for enhancing
the PC audio experience, including the highly respected, studio performance
VIA Vinyl Envy24 line of audio controllers. The VIA Vinyl Envy Line
of Controllers introduced 24-bit standards, and 96/192kHz sampling
rates to the consumer and professional markets and is used by some
of the world's leading audio card makers for a variety of high end
professional applications. VIA also offers a range of AC’97 audio
codecs, such as VIA Vinyl Six-TRAC and Eight-TRAC that enable theatre
quality sound in both audio-on-motherboard and soundcard applications.
About QSound Labs, Inc.
Since its inception in 1988, QSound Labs, Inc. has evolved into one
of the world's leading audio and voice technology companies. The
Company has developed proprietary audio solutions that include virtual
surround sound, positional audio and stereo enhancement for the consumer
electronics, PC/multimedia, Internet and healthcare markets. The
Company's cutting-edge audio technologies create rich 3D audio environments
allowing consumers to enjoy stereo surround sound from two, four
or 5.1 speaker systems. To hear 3D audio demos and learn more about
QSound, visit our web site at http://www.qsound.com. |
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