Sigma Designs Announces RealMagic PrimeTime VGA-to-TV Converter Card for
Computer Display on an TV

New PC Card Promotes Convergence of PC and Home Entertainment

FREMONT, Calif., October 17, 1994 -- Sigma Designs, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIGM), a
leading manufacturer of multimedia computer products, today announced
RealMagic PrimeTime, a low-cost PC add-in card that allows the usage of
any television as a high-quality computer display system. RealMagic
PrimeTime will begin shipping in November for a suggested retail price of
$179.

The perfect solution for taking advantage of even the greatest big-screen
color TVs for viewing PC-based home entertainment, learning and business
applications, RealMagic PrimeTime is the link between the computer and the
television. RealMagic PrimeTime is also the ideal complement of Sigma
Designs' - RealMagic Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) playback
controller which provides full-screen, full-motion video and CD-quality
sound from a standard CD-ROM drive. The two products combine to offer the
ultimate home entertainment platform.

Available separately, RealMagic PrimeTime is also included in the grandest
of all PC multimedia upgrade kits -- RealMagic Special Edition -- which
combines industry-leading CD-ROM drive and speaker components, as well as
a vast library of full-screen, full-motion interactive software titles
with Sigma Designs' breakthrough RealMagic MPEG playback controller.

"With RealMagic, PrimeTime users are able to use the family entertainment
center for games or spreadsheets and take advantage of their existing
color TV," said Greg Jones, vice president of marketing at Sigma Designs.
"Combine that with today's RealMagic MPEG technology and the whole family
can enjoy compelling interactive games, feature-length films, music videos
and a plethora of educational and business software in TV-quality video
and CD-quality sound -- right on their home PC. This solution really
typifies the convergence of the PC and home entertainment."

RealMagic PrimeTime VGA-to-NTSC converter is an ISA-bus card that can be
used with any personal computer with a VGA output, delivering near
flicker-free S-Video or composite TV signals to standard and big screen
televisions, VCRs or projection TVs. Screen adjustment utilities for both
DOS and Windows are included with RealMagic PrimeTime.

Pricing, Warranty and Availability

The RealMagic PrimeTime VGA-to-NTSC converter card will be available in
late October for a suggested retail price of $179. The board is supported
by a five-year extended warranty. RealMagic Special Edition Multimedia
Upgrade Kit brings RealMagic's MPEG TV-quality video and CD-quality stereo
sound together with the RealMagic PrimeTime, Pioneer's DRM-604X 6-disc,
quad-speed CD-ROM changer, Advent Power Partners 570 harmonically-tuned,
35-Watt-per-channel powered speakers, and a library of the latest MPEG
interactive titles for $2,499. The new kit will be available in November
and comes with a five-year warranty on the RealMagic controllers and a
one-year warranty on the CD-ROM changer and speakers.

Other RealMagic solutions are also available including: the RealMagic
standalone controller combining MPC Level 2 sound capabilities and MPEG
video and audio playback functions for a street price of $349; the
RealMagic Lite controller providing MPEG video and audio playback
capabilities for users with an existing sound card for a $299 street
price; and the standard RealMagic CD-ROM Upgrade Kit for a $699 street
price, including an MPC Level 2 CD-ROM drive, the RealMagic video and
audio playback controller, speakers, and 15 software titles.

Sigma Designs, headquartered in Fremont, Calif., is a leading manufacturer
of technology advanced multimedia products, including affordable MPEG
video and audio decompression hardware. All Sigma Designs products are
sold worldwide through a network of dealers, distributors and original
equipment manufacturers. For information, call (800) 845-8086, (510)
770-0100, or fax (510) 770-2641.

Sigma Designs Inc
46501 Landing Parkway
Fremont, CA 94538

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