Bringing Rich Media to Your Television

Consumers now have the option to get the greatest enjoyment of multi-channel audio from digital broadcast and internet media sources on their internet-connected televisions through the combination of industry-leading SRS TruSurround HD^TM surround sound audio processing and the Tango 3 Smart TV platform.

Santa Ana, California, January 18th, 2012 – C2 Microsystems and SRS Labs announced today that they have concluded certification of the SRS TruSurround HD™ library available on C2’s Tango 3 Smart TV platform. Both parties were able to fully optimize the capabilities available on SRS Labs’ powerful audio technology solution and C2’s high-performance audio processing capabilities built into the Tango 3 media processor to deliver the most realistic and natural surround sound experience possible on products featuring the new Smart TV platform.

As the world’s most popular audio solution for flat-panel TVs, SRS TruSurround HD provides an immersive listening experience by processing multi-channel audio contents for playback over two speakers. In addition, SRS TruSurround HD effortlessly enhances the consumer audio entertainment experience by providing deeper bass for more immersive action sequences, dialog clarity for better intelligibility of vocals, and definition control for maximum high-frequency clarity. More information can be found here: http://www.srslabs.com/content.aspx?id=994

“With our audio and voice technologies featured in nearly 2 billion products worldwide, we have built the fundamental core of our business through developing and growing strategic partnerships with several of the industry’s leading silicon providers,” said Joanna Skrdlant, Senior Director of Global Platform Partner Program at SRS Labs. “We are excited to be working with C2 on making our industry-leading front-rendered surround sound technology, TruSurround HD, available to the Tango 3 Smart TV platform and are confident that licensees of this powerful new platform will be impressed by the remarkable audio capabilities that this combination provides.”

The Tango 3 Smart TV family of silicon devices supports the decoding and display of analog and digital video from baseband, broadcast TV and Internet media sources. It offers high quality de-interlacing, scaling and post-processing for direct display on LCD television panels. It includes popular features such as 3D display and 2D to 3D conversion. The integrated media processor supports multi-format audio / video decoding and post-processing simultaneously with high-performance applications processing for rich media environments such as HTML5 and Adobe FlashTM. The Tango 3 Smart TV platform is an optimized AndroidTM implementation coupled with media processing and applications enhancements to create an industry-leading solution for television products.

“The Tango 3 Smart TV platform was developed so that we could deliver high value-for-money Smart TV products to both our manufacturing partners and their customers through the integration of best-of-class audio and video technologies,” said Dr Jinxiang (Gene) Liu, CEO of C2 Microsystems. “We are delighted to partner with SRS Labs to bring SRS TruSurround HD to this exciting new platform.”

The Jazz 2 family of silicon devices for Smart STB applications has also completed certification. Samples of the Tango 3 or Jazz 2 platforms are available to qualified licensees.

About C2 Microsystems:

C2 Microsystems is a manufacturer of media processor devices designed for the broadband delivery of rich media content over the internet and private networks to Smart TVs, set-top boxes and other connected media devices. C2 Microsystems' products combine the ability to encode, decode and transcode a wide variety of media content types with high performance applications processing. C2 Microsystems has offices in Beijing, San Jose and Taipei.

About SRS Labs:

SRS Labs’ company description and important cautions regarding forward-looking statements made in this release is available at www.srslabs.com/boilerplate.

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