KENNESAW, GA, (March 6, 1998) - Digital Projection announced today that NBC Broadcast Operations has purchased the company's all-digital, high-end multimedia projectors for use on NBC's "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" as well as "Dateline NBC" and "NBC News At Sunrise."

"Digital Projection has long recognized the benefits POWER Displays offer to broadcast applications and we're thrilled to provide NBC with projectors that utilize the very best technology available to this market," said Mike Levi, Digital Projection's president of North American operations.

According to Gary Cooper, NBC technical manager for Nightly News, a 5000-ANSI lumen POWER 5dv is rear-mounted on the Nightly News' 6 by 8-ft. video screen and will project live video and composite graphics during the network's newscasts.

"Brightness is such a key factor and with this new projection technology we are actually turning the light output down. Since we can actually run at lower lamp levels, we now have plenty of room for more brightness and color saturation if we need it," said Cooper

"Maintaining accurate color temperature, luminance and color uniformity are constant concerns for the broadcast community.  Any variations in these parameters dramatically impact the quality of the projected image as seen through the broadcast camera eye," Levi added. "Our POWER Displays demonstrate precise color and luminance characteristics across the entire screen.  In fact, POWER Displays project images with a color depth nearly equivalent to that of the human eye.  CRTs, video walls and other light-valve projection technologies can not compare to the look of a POWER Display when used on camera."

POWER Displays have already been utilized for ABC News and America's Funniest Home Videos. Our next generation projection technology will continue to emphasize the performance attributes this industry demands, said Levi.

Digital Projection's POWER Displays utilize proprietary signal processing, illumination, and optical technology. Every POWER Display produces non-pixelated, film-like images with luminance uniformity greater than 90 percent, all delivered from factory preconverged image modulators that require no maintenance.

Driven by a powerful Xenon arc lamp that maximizes light output, each POWER Display produces the bright, crisp images required for projects with considerable ambient light. Producing up to 5000 ANSI lumens, the projectors accept all video formats and standards as well as all computer sources with resolution up to 1024 x 768.

The POWER Displays line of projectors is a result of seven years of revolutionary development between Digital Projection and Texas Instruments®. POWER Displays represent the highest-level execution of Texas Instruments' 3-chip, Digital Light Processing™ (DLP) technology. Digital Projection's worldwide presence includes offices in North America, England, Europe and the Far East. Its North American headquarters, based in Atlanta, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital Projection, Limited, located in Manchester, England. The company's North American headquarters are located at 55 Chastain Road, Suite 115, Kennesaw, GA 30144.