Sage Inc., a leading provider of digital display processors for consumer technology and PC-display products, today announced that Philips Consumer Electronics has selected the FLI2200 for their 2001 model-year progressive scan DVD players. Philips was able to create significant advancements in their DVD players by implementing Sage's award winning video-processing technology -- enabling the highest video quality at reduced system costs.

``We are pleased to incorporate the FLI2200 to the excellent suite of features already offered by our DVD players,'' stated Thorsten Koch, senior vice president and general manager, Video, Philips Consumer Electronics, North America. ``Use of the FLI2200 will allow our progressive scan DVD players to offer the kind of video quality previously associated only with high end home theatre systems. This is an unprecedented value proposition for consumers.'' The FLI2200 is the world's first 10-bit single-chip motion adaptive deinterlacer that incorporates recently acquired Faroudja Laboratories' Emmy award-winning de-interlacing and post-processing algorithms to convert standard interlaced video signals into progressive scan signals. The FLI2200 boasts a number of industry-first features including proprietary Diagonal Correlation Deinterlacing (DCDi(TM)). The DCDi algorithm eliminates the jagged edges seen on moving diagonal lines in video images. Other advanced performance capabilities include motion adaptive deinterlacing with optimal filtering on a per pixel basis, film mode for proper handling of 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown, bad-edit detection/correction, and motion adaptive cross color suppression.