Chula Vista, California – January 7, 2008 – SMK Electronics Corporation announced today that Microsoft has selected SMK’s “Quatro Pulse” IR Protocol for use in Windows Media Center.  Microsoft chose the “Quatro Pulse” IR Protocol after 18 months of rigorous testing and will offer it royalty free for use in devices designed to work with a wide range of Windows Media Center products.  The “Quatro Pulse” IR Protocol offers extensive key code capabilities and maximum flexibility to a development community looking to take remote control devices to the next level. “We are extremely happy to provide Microsoft’s Windows Media Center with this level of flexibility in an IR Protocol,” said Paul Evans, President of SMK America Group.   “It supports so many of the new ideas and concepts being developed today that it makes our job, as a Remote Control Manufacturer, that much easier.”

“Windows Media Center allows people to easily navigate through the entertainment stored on their PC,” said  Ron Pessner, general manager,  Microsoft Connected TV Division. “With the addition of SMK’s “Quatro Pulse” IR Protocol, we will be able to increase our many partners’ ability to innovate and improve performance in the ever-growing Windows Media Center ecosystem of products.”

About SMK

SMK Corporation, established in 1925 with its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, is the largest manufacturer of remote control units in the world.  SMK is uniquely focused on the design, development and production of IR & RF based remote control solutions and its competencies include an extensive product offering, unparalleled engineering, and R&D and design services. SMK also produces resistive and optical touch screens, and a wide variety of electronic components used by major OEM’s in the field of communications, information, audio-visual, and car and home electronics.

SMK Electronics Corp., U.S.A., headquartered in Chula Vista, California, provides a wide range of standard solutions in addition to fully custom developed products with local manufacturing facilities in Tijuana, Mexico.
 
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More information, please contact:
George Sawyer
SMK Electronics Corporation
(6l9) 2l6-6477
sawyer@smkusa.com