D2Audio Amplifiers Fuel Hottest New Audio Trend: Flat Panel TVs With Home-Theater Sound Quality

AUSTIN, Texas--Jan. 6, 2006--D2Audio(TM), the world's only manufacturer of intelligent digital amplifiers(TM), today announced its digital amplifiers are driving one of the hottest new audio trends today, bringing high-quality home theater sound to televisions. Modern TVs provide crisp video images, but they lack commensurate audio sound quality, which limits consumers' ability to fully enjoy the complete media experience. With the proliferation of high-definition digital audio/video content, the need for televisions to provide high-quality audio has become more urgent. The newly released TXS25-2 from D2Audio is now powering high-definition audio in televisions with screen sizes of 30" and larger.

"Today's flat panel TVs have become the focal point for many consumers' entertainment and home-theater experience. Without compelling audio, this experience is significantly lacking," says Peter Chen, vice president and general manager of BenQ's Consumer Electronics Business Group. "This is why we have aligned with D2Audio, the leader in premium high-quality audio processing and amplification. By integrating their technology and leveraging their expertise, BenQ's next generation televisions deliver an extremely compelling and high-quality experience in both the video and audio arenas."

D2Audio's strategic entry into the television market represents a significant business opportunity with TV unit volume expected to exceed 200 million by 2009, according to the combined data of Bear & Stearns, April '05, CIBC '05 and Display Search HDTV 2005. A significant transition is under way, moving the television market from CRT-based devices toward all-digital flat panel solutions. That is a trend that D2Audio is perfectly positioned to leverage.

"We are honored that BenQ, an expert in the flat panel TV market, chose to leverage D2Audio's premium intelligent digital amplifier technology and D2Audio(R) SoundSuite(TM) features," said Brian Wong, president and CEO of D2Audio. "D2Audio SoundSuite delivers the highest digital sound quality on the market, enabling our customers to reproduce the theater-class audio/video experience with their products."

With today's announcement, D2Audio formalizes a strategic thrust into the TV market, greatly expanding beyond the previous efforts in high-quality AVR segments. Leveraging their intelligent digital amplifier technology in high-end, high-performance applications, D2Audio now enables a new class of consumer products with incredible sound quality through an essential suite of audio enhancement features specifically designed to bring the multi-channel audio experience to the 2-speaker television market. This new sound processing delivers an immersive audio experience using psycho-acoustic technologies on D2Audio(R) Digital Audio Engine(TM) (DAE) IC platforms.

A full line of D2Audio DAE IC platforms will be supported by a host of comprehensive reference design packages, enabling high-volume partners to quickly get to market with minimum cost, effort and risk.

"Our D2Audio DAE IC platforms, combined with the SoundSuite software, leverages our embedded DSP technology as well as the many unique patented high-performance technologies in the DAE-1 and DAE-2 IC platforms. The DAE technology optimizes sound quality, audio performance, thermal performance and delivers protection with sophisticated modeling, real-time monitoring and control," says Skip Taylor, Chief Technology Officer of D2Audio.

About D2Audio

The D2Audio Corporation, maker of the world's only intelligent digital audio amplifiers, supplies a full line of cost-efficient, powerful, multi-channel amplifier solutions with market-leading performance and superior sound quality for consumer, professional, and automotive industries. The patented D2Audio(R) Intelligent Digital Amplifier(TM) technologies, now with D2Audio(R) SoundSuite(TM), deliver an immersive audio experience on the D2Audio(R) Digital Audio Engine(TM) (DAE) IC platforms. For more information on D2Audio and its products, please visit www.d2audio.com.