Philips PSC604/00 Volantino

Philips Electronics White Paper 

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Joe also likes to interact with other people online. 
While the music is playing, he uses his PC 
microphone to talk with his online gaming friends 
via software that provides IP based Internet chat. 
His friends create mono voice streams that are 
processed by Sound Agent's QMSS 5.1 technology 
that is mixed with the other multi-channel 
streams and” localized”, so Joe feels like the 
voices of his friends are immersed in the actual 
soundtrack of his online adventures.  
 
In the midst of all this, Joe's friend Mike steps into 
his room and asks if Joe wants to check out his 
new Spiderman® DVD.  Joe, not wanting to exit 
his online game and playlist --  but who wants to 
see the DVD --  reduces the music volume, then 
launches a multi-channel software DVD player 
and plays the first chapter of Spiderman. Again, 
rendered through Sound Agent 2 in enhanced 5.1-
channel QSurround, Joe adds a reverb Theater 
preset   via QSound’s Environmental Modeling 
(QEM) technology to the DVD playback. The 
result is a custom, in-the-theater like experience. 
 
As Joe and Mike watch Spiderman, Joe is still 
monitoring his game in the background to make 
sure he is “in the action”...  
 
 

No other sound card manufacturer today can address 
such input and output complexity. 
 
Platform strategy extends to other products. 
 
IMP is a software architecture that can be utilized in a 
wide range of consumer devices. With powerful, 
affordable products emerging for home use including 
servers (PC and otherwise), wireless media, new TV 
sets, web tablets or “smart displays”, the home 
environment will become increasingly complex and 
diverse. Sound Agent 2, and the underlying IMP 
technology, represents an important and highly 
extendable user interface platform for this increasing 
broad range of home entertainment products.