Ultima Electronics Corp. of Taiwan (owner of the ¡§ARTEC¡¨ brand) recently unveiled the T1 portable digital-TV tuner box, which features three ¡§world's No.1¡¨ functions: first digital TV box supporting the HDTV (high-definition television), USB 2.0 high-speed data-transmission interface, ¡§on-the-fly¡¨ decoding that enables it to continuously offer the latest programming schedules, and ¡§first place¡¨ in terms of signal-receiving quality, ensuring industry-vanguard picture quality.

The high performance model has won a hot market reception and the highest commendations from professional PC magazines since its demonstration. Sancy Wang, president of Ultima, says that the T1 is the firm's first stepping-stone in long range plans to tap the consumer-electronics market.

With completion of an intensive expansion of the firm's sales channels and integration of its resources in the third quarter, Wang says, the T1 has enjoyed robust sales worldwide in the forth quarter, making Ultima the No.1 seller of such products in Taiwan.

Wang mentions that, among competing products in its niche, the T1 has won the most commendations from professional and consumer magazines worldwide. The pocket-size device features a futuristic appearance and its extremely lightweight; Ultima explains that the innovative design is an integration of the progressive firm's outstanding technical advantages.

Already a leading maker of optical disk drives; Ultima says that it utilizes established technical capability and core technologies in the digital video broadcasting (DVB-T) field to aggressively tap the consumer-electronics market. In addition, the company integrates all related enterprise resources in R&D as well as finished-product and parts manufacturing to ensure the highest product quality and most rapid delivery.

“}Following up on the T1,”} Wang states, “}Ultima will be pushing a series of other innovative and competitive consumer-electronics product, with guaranteed high quality and advanced technology.”}

Other feature of the T1 include: USB 2.0-supporting; digital terrestrial video and radio programs recording; real-time/schedule digital video recording; still image capture; EPG (electronic program guide); PIP (picture in picture); one-touch channel auto-scan at 6/7/8 MHz; remote control etc. The device weights 136g (body only).

Please contact the company for more information at 7F, No.100, Li De street, Chung Ho City, Taipei County, Taiwan;Tel:(886-2)22256300;Fax:(886-2)22252674;e-mail: service@mail.ultima.com.tw ;website: http://www.artec.com.tw