“ See the Wonder in a Digital World “- - All new life experiences by Tatung at Computex Taipei 2004, Hall 4, T101D

 Taipei, Taiwan, 1 June 2004 – Further to the success at CeBIT, new innovations by Tatung Co. are to be showcased in Computex 2004 in Taipei. From “Quality Living“ to “ Live Smart “, central to the commitments of Tatung is to enable people to access digital content easily anywhere and at any time with pleasant user experiences. The commitment cultivates a line of innovative devices such as Media Center Extender, Photo Jukebox, TV Card, PDP/LCD TV, Tablet PC, & Broadband Videophone that makes home entertainment creative, work efficient, and communication simultaneous.

" Tatung has been a long-term partner to major software companies. e-Home is one of the main realms that Tatung has fully engaged,” said Mr. W.S. Lin, President of Tatung Company. “ With the market success of Media Center PC, we have further developed Media Center Extender for home-networked entertainment on TV's. Also, we have worked on the Portable Media Center for hand-held personal entertainment. We are very pleased with the achievement of these products that are of simplicity, compatibility, quality and user excitement.”

“ Further more, our invincible product lines on flat panel display, especially PDPs and LCD TVs, and global networks in major continents have given us extra competitive edges that automatically differentiates Tatung from other competitors. We shall advance further to expand the business to serve the emerging digital consumer market on a worldwide basis,” President Lin concluded with great confidence.
 

 Tatung's full range of flat panel display for home and office

LCD & PDP Multimedia Display

For a full spectrum in our display product lines, Tatung showcases its PDP(42”, 46”, & 50”) in a spacious living room, LCD TV (17”, 20”, 23”, 27”, 30”, 32”, 37”, 40”, & 47”) in an elegant bedroom, and LCD monitors of 15”, 17”, & 19” in an office.

Key features of the PDP & LCD TV include wide aspect ratio with super wide viewing angle, high contrast / brightness, PIP function, video inputs for TV, CV, SV, YCbCr, YPbPr, PC inputs with both D-SUB and DVI, tuner and/or speaker detachable, VESA mounting holes. As for the LCD monitors, key features include the family look ID design, slim type with foldable base, with or without speaker built-in, with or without DVI built-in, low power consumption, super picture quality, and best performance.

Apart from catering for American and Asian markets, Tatung is currently the only company in Taiwan that is able to manufacture FPD products for Pan-European systems. All products are of sleek designs and are ideal for a variety of applications that require multiple video sources and optimal picture performance – from digital entertainment content to business applications.

 Tatung's digital home product

Media Center PC

With more than 20 years of experience in the PC business and expertise of 40 years in the making of AV products, Tatung manufactured the world’s first Media Center PC in 2002. Now, as a member of Digital Home Working Group, our 3rd generation Media Center PC is to be unveiled. It runs on Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition and features built-in TV tuner, front I/O ports, card reader, personal video recorder, and remote control. Its powerful capability to manage diverse content sources from Internet, TV, Radio, digital photographs, and digital video makes Tatung’s Media Center PC a perfect device for the control of entertainment and information.

 Tatung's digital product for people on the go

Photo Jukebox

The elio PJ is the world’s first hard disk based personal media player featuring 2.2” color screen with MP3, JPEG and Windows® Media Audio playback capability. Also, it fully supports PC host applications and digital rights management (DRM) to enable end-to-end integration compatibility. elio PJ offers much more than existing hard-drive and flash-memory portable players in the market. elio PJ is also more compact (73 * 113 * 18.5 mm) than traditional hard drive-based portable media devices, making it the leader in the pocket-able jukebox category. In addition, elio PJ stores up to 5,000 MP3 titles and 7,000 JPEG photos, as well as other popular audio formats such as WMA, AAC and WAV. Using a CPU provided by industry leader PortalPlayer, Inc. and an advanced audio code, elio PJ offers crystal sharp music quality and continuous music playback entertainment for up to 12 hours. It also supports FM radio recording with a simple touch of a button.
 

Tablet PC

For the mobile professional, the Tatung Tablet PC features handwriting recognition, fingerprint recognition and an onscreen keyboard. While the built-in WLAN facilitates online access to information anytime and anywhere, the Tatung Tablet PC’s cutting-edge design and capability fulfills a variety of application needs – from the classroom, banking and insurance, to the medical sector.

 Key features of our chic Tablet PC are:

 Tatung's digital office products

Tablet PC

Descriptions are as above.

Server

With the pursuit of reliability and cost-effectiveness, Tatung server BU is proud to introduce new generation PC Server and Blade Server at Computex Taipei 2004. For enterprises needing superior manageability and reliability, the 1U rack-mount series is a good solution which based on single Intel Pentium 4 CPU,4×DDR-266/333/400 Module up to 4GB,3×Hot-Swap 3.5’’ SATA-150 HDD. For customers with NAS and Internet security service needs, Tatung 2U rack-mount series can provide enterprises a perfect platform like embedded applications do.

Also, our new ultra-dense blade server TUD-4010 has the capacity to accommodate up to 10 independent server blades in a single 4U form factor chassis. Tatung greatly increases the number of servers that can be installed in a single rack, while lowering power consumption by using high performance Intel Dual LV Xeon processors. At the same time, we reduce the number of wire connections and provide powerful data management software for deployment, platform, power and workload management.


 Tatung's communication products

Broadband Videophone

The idea of its design and development is to make talking via the Internet an enjoyable experience. By applying state of the art voice and video transmission over the Internet technology, TATUNG TIA-8100 IP Broadband Videophone is a cutting-edge communication equipment that makes quality distant real-time video and audio communication within a reach of your hand.

Integrating with gatekeeper, VoIP gateways, TATUNG TIA-8100 Broadband Videophone allows you to make phone calls to regular PSTN phones and GSM mobile phones at the cheapest price. It is 100% free when calling from videophone to videophone. The only expense occurs is the monthly broadband Internet access fee, for example, the ADSL. It is simply the best solution for the overseas immigrants, students abroad, and the elderly to help them “Meet” their families without the trouble of traveling!

In addition to standalone type of videophone, TATUNG also has a Videoconferencing Set-top Box system, which is also a high cost-effective solution for videoconference. Companies, especially for SMEs, can save considerable business trip expense by using TATUNG TIA-2200 Videoconferencing Set-top Box to communicate face to face with business partners and clients.


About Tatung

Founded in 1918, Tatung Company (www.tatung.com) is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacturing of a vast array of digital consumer products, including consumer PCs, LCD TVs and PDPs, network-connected devices, storage-based media players and home appliances. Tatung also delivers advanced products for business computing, such as Tablet PCs, blade servers and wireless thin clients. For industrial products, Tatung has well-established power and energy businesses.

By capitalizing on the advantages of vertical integration, Tatung makes full use of the supply of key components such as flat-panel displays and digital tuners from its many subsidiaries located across the globe. In order to sustain strong, long-term growth, Tatung is particularly focused on the development of advanced technologies and global network of operations. With its overseas branches spreading across 12 countries, Tatung is in a solid position to deliver products more efficiently and fulfill customer services more effectively. Overseeing its global operations through its Taipei headquarters, Tatung offers customers tremendous advantages of cost, speed, and seamless backend operation in order for them to stay ahead in today's dynamic business world. Tatung specializes in the ODM/OEM business and serves branded customers on a global basis.