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FARENHEIT PRO VIDEO 64 PRESS RELEASE
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For Immediate Release
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Contact: Pat Workman, Press Relations
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(510) 683-0506
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press@orchid.com
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ORCHID PREMIERES FAST GRAPHICS
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WITH MPEG AND DIGITAL VIDEO SCALING
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HyperDriver(TM) Technology Speeds Multimedia Applications
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FREMONT, CA--April 3, 1995-- Orchid Technology announced today
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the merging of high-performance graphics and digital video playback
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with its latest market entry, the Fahrenheit ProVideo 64. With HyperDriverTM
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technology and the ability to play and scale both standard and MPEG
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digital video, the Fahrenheit ProVideo 64 begins a new era in graphics
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card performance.
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The Fahrenheit ProVideo 64 combines S3's latest 968 chipset and video
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memory (VRAM) for extremely fast Windows and DOS performance. A complete
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suite of software drivers for CAD, business and graphics is included,
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as well as Orchid's new HyperDriver Windows software. Orchid's HyperDriver
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technology is geared towards multimedia and digital video playback
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applications. While providing compatibility with today's high refresh
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rates and resolutions, the HyperDriver technology also handles the
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large block transfers of video data faster than competing offerings.
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Unlike other 64-bit graphics accelerators, the Fahrenheit ProVideo
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64's HyperDriver is compatible with digital video capture cards.
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According to Tony Rodrigues, Director of Product Marketing, "Users
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no longer have to choose between speed, compatibility and feature
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sets. The Fahrenheit ProVideo 64 pumps out the fastest graphics performance
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available while moving computers into full-screen MPEG and digital
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video."
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In addition to hardware video scaling in all modes, the Fahrenheit
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ProVideo 64 supports resolutions up to 1600x1200 and refresh rates
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up to 120Hz. It is available for both PCI and VLB bus architectures,
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and comes with either 2MB of VRAM (user upgradeable to 4MB) or with
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4MB of VRAM pre-installed. MSRP is $429 (2MB) and $629 (4MB).
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Orchid Technology, a subsidiary of Micronics Computers (NASDAQ:MCRN),
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is a worldwide manufacturer of graphics, sound and digital video
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multimedia products for the personal computer market. The company
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is headquartered at 45365 Northport Loop West, Fremont, California
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94538, (510) 683-0300. Orchid Technology also has offices in Paris,
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France; Basingstoke, United Kingdom; and Meerbusch, Germany. ###
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Orchid, Fahrenheit ProVideo 64 and HyperDriver are trademarks of
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Orchid Technology. All other products are trademarks of their respective
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manufacturers.
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