DVDO®, by Anchor Bay Technologies, Inc. announces first customer shipments of their new Precision Deinterlacing card featuring ABT’s Video Reference Series (VRS) technology for the iScan™ VP30. VRS Precision Deinterlacing™ delivers the image quality demanded by today's large-screen, high-resolution displays. It eliminates many of the artifacts found in common deinterlacers to produce a smooth image, free of artifacts such as jagged edges and combing. VRS Precision Deinterlacing features five-field motion-adaptive deinterlacing and edge-adaptive processing for video sources, along with advanced cadence detection for film and animation sources.

As part of their ongoing corporate responsibility program, DVDO® will auction off an iScan™ VP30, high definition video processor to benefit the nationally recognized Childhelp® organization via the website http://www.dvdo.com/charityauction/

Parasound has introduced a five-in/one-out high-definition digital-video and -audio switching device that will add integrated HDMI source selection capabilities to the company's current audio-video processors, as well as many other processors and AV receivers using the included remote control. The Parasound Zcustom Zhd is used as a source selector for up to five HDMI video sources, connecting any of the inputs to an HDMI video projector or other display device. It is the latest of the company's many half-width rack-mountable custom installation problem solvers.

The date for the official switch from analog TV to a completely digital system has been pushed back from 2006 to a more reasonable 2009 time frame. In the mean time consumers are snatching up HDTV sets at a never before seen pace as prices for large, flat and stunning looking TVs drop like a dotcom stock price in 2001. Everything seems perfect. HDTV is driving people into retailers to buy their first new televisions in years and hopefully for retailers they also buy all of the attachment products (speakers, receivers, cables and accessories) while they are at it.

DVDO® has just announced that their next generation high-definition video scaling processor, the DVDO iScan VP30 is now shipping. This third generation 1080p capable video processor is based on the the iScan HD and iScan HD+ and is the first stand-alone high definition video processor offered by DVDO with four HDMI inputs.