June
13


Epson and Philips recently announced their co-operation in the field of innovative projection key modules and the immediate availability of their first joint reference design for a small and cost effective personal projector. Unlike traditional projector designs for business and educational purpose that focus on ever increasing brightness performance, the new joint reference design is aimed at emerging segments of personal projection such as gaming, digital cameras and personal multimedia players, and powers ultra-compact projectors with stylish designs.

The use of projection in conjunction with applications as diverse as game consoles, digital cameras, PDAs and MP4 players will create new, immersive consumer viewing experiences due to the large screen size framed within small, stylish and portable devices.

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October
30


Seiko Epson Corporation has announced the S1D13771 digital video encoder LSI. The new product can easily be added to digital video systems .With a built-in display buffer, high-performance DAC, and high-quality scalar providing bi-cubic input/output scaling, the S1D13771 enables the production of high-quality TV output with low material cost. Production is planned to start from January 2007.A high-quality internal scaling algorithm and complex TV filters allow for VGA resolution input to be stored using a minimum amount of memory, while providing smoothly scaled output to the full resolution specified by either PAL or NTSC standards.

The Epson S1D13771 features wafer level CSP (WCSP), 4.46 x 4.46 mm (ball pitch 0.5 mm), the smallest solution suitable for mobile applications.

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February
17


Epson Direct (Japan) has come with a nice collection of laptops with favorite Disney characters-Tinkerbell, Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse. The Disney characters decorate outside of the new Epson Endeavor laptops with matching wall paper and screen saver. The new model is basically the same Endeavor NT2850 White Edition .The note book PC offers a choice of XGA (1024 x 768 pixel) or SXGA+ (1400 x 1050 pixel) resolution display on a 15″ LCD monitor. Running off a SiS M661MX chipset with Celeron M 370J (1.5GHz) processor, 256MB memory, 40GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM and OS Windows XP Home Edition (SP2) .The note book Pc comes with a 19 mm full-size keyboard, USB 2.0×4, Type2 PC card slot ×1,SD card /MMC/ memory stick (PRO) slot ×1, IEEE 1394, Ethernet card. The lithium ion battery lasts approximately for 1.5 hours.

With dimensions 332×287×35.6mm (width x depth x height), approximate weight 3kg the note book is available (only in Japan) for approximately 120,750 Yen.

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