PNY TECHNOLOGIES PROVIDES HD VIDEO EDITORS WITH INNOVATIVE NVIDIA PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICS SOLUTION

New NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 by PNY Professional Video Edition Features An HD Video Breakout Box

PARSIPPANY, NJ - (March 30, 2005) – PNY Technologies, Inc. today announced they are shipping the NVIDIA Quadro® FX 540 by PNY Professional Video Edition featuring a video breakout box with real-time component HD providing remarkable high-definition video quality.  This professional graphics board for the video specialty market is a superb match for non-linear video software applications and external video monitoring support for HDV video editing workstations.

“The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 by PNY Professional Video Edition provides HDV video editors pristine high-definition display through an external professional-grade video breakout box,” said Jeff Medeiros, business development manager for PNY Technologies. “Designed for professional video users, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 by PNY Professional Video Edition combines exceptional price performance, high bandwidth PCI Express™ graphics and real-time HD video display.”

“We’re excited to see the release of the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 by PNY Professional Video Edition”, said David Taylor, CEO of CineForm.  “Until now it has been impractical and expensive for our HD customers to monitor their projects during the editing process.  PNY Technologies and NVIDIA have now changed that.  The value and visual quality delivered by the FX 540 is outstanding, and is the perfect complement to CineForm’s Aspect HD for Adobe® Premiere® Pro.”

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 by PNY Professional Video Edition features simultaneous computer display and output-to-component HD, S-Video or composite video monitors. The PNY Technologies professional breakout box paired with the FX 540 graphics display board provides independent, full-screen video overlay output for preview of real time effects, video editing timelines and source clips on video monitors.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 by PNY Professional Video Edition includes 128MB of DDR memory, and is available now to distributors, system integrators and value-added resellers throughout North America for an MSRP $325. 

PNY Technologies is the exclusive NVIDIA Quadro partner for North America and Europe. All products in the NVIDIA Quadro by PNY Technologies series come with a three-year warranty (one year standard plus two additional years upon completion of a registration form on PNY Technologies’ Web site).  For additional information, visit the PNY Technologies Web site at www.pny.com/quadro

About PNY Technologies, Inc.
Established in 1985, PNY Technologies, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of its Verto -brand consumer graphics cards and NVIDIA Quadro® by PNY professional graphics boards. The company also offers a full line of high-end memory upgrade modules, flash memory and flash peripherals. Its memory products currently account for a majority share of all retail sales in the U.S. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., PNY maintains facilities in North America (Santa Clara, Calif. and Parsippany, N.J.), Europe (France, United Kingdom, Germany) and Asia (Taiwan). For additional information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.pny.com.