With "the viewer" access to new digital adventure worlds

With "the viewer" access to new digital adventure worlds deuromedia, leading provider of broadband solutions software presents its multimedia user interface "the viewer". "the viewer" is a multimedia portal designed to receive digital infotainment contents which can be installed on any computer or TV set with Set-Top box and DVB Card.

The software enables a smooth convergence of TV, PC and Internet contents on one user interface with a unique interactive experience potential for the active user. "the viewer" overcomes the limits of traditional terrestrial access technologies by applying the DVB standard (Digital Video Broadcast) and the ASTRA satellite system in transmitting multimedia contents to the household screen, thus allowing access to a new dimension of digital and personalised infotainment.

"the viewer" paves the way to a new multimedia world which combines the transmission quality of digital TV with the interactivity of Internet. By applying satellites to transmit multimedia contents we on the one hand overcome the bottlenecks currently prevailing on the data highways of the World Wide Web, and on the other we are in a position to provide infotainment offers tuned to our clients' specific requirements free house via the ASTRA satellites in order to funnel the flow of data", as Dieter Weber, deuromedia Managing Director, describes the situation.

"We regard ourselves as trend-setters for a technological revolution in the future multimedia landscape by promoting the distribution of the DVB standard and the convergence of TV and Internet. The user is given a new experience potential at the PC or TV - free-to-air, without additional costs".

Today's ASTRA satellites feature the bandwidth required to realise high-speed Internet. As a result of the data transmission capacity of a satellite with 38 Mbit/s the Internet bottleneck is overcome, when multimedia applications, such as video, TV or radio etc. are called off.

To curb the information overkill the user has the active option to compose individual "the viewer" contents by tuning these to his/her own requirements. According to the broadcasting principle the selected contents are automatically updated, managed via "the viewer" and presented in a structured form. The user can currently select among 250 cost-free digital radio and television programs, 500 newsgroups, 500 top Internet sites and in future among web channels offering news, telelearning, e-commerce and entertainment contents.

"the viewer" features at one glance

• Auto-Install function via Internet/satellite
  
  
• Digital radio and full-screen TV reception
  
  
• 250 European, pre-configured TV and radio channels with digital contents which can be selected to meet individual requirements
  
  
• 500 top Internet websites free-to-air
  
  
• 500 newsgroups free-to-air
  
  
• Video/audio (near) on demand
  
  
• Individual electronic program guide (EPG)
  
  
• Integrated program search machine
  
  
• Announcement channel
  
  
• Personal information profile
  
  
• Receiving and programming files, downloads and live streams
  
  
• Receiving and presenting parallel data currents
  
  
• Broadband reception with up to 6.5 Mbits/sec.
  
  
• Freely configurable info ticker
  
  
• Return channel via Internet
  
  
• Internet online push
  
  
• E-commerce
  
  
• Internet Browser functionality
  
  
• Free-to-air: Free reception and cost-free infotainment

Availability and hardware requirements of "the viewer"

"the viewer" will be available free of charge by cost-free download from Internet.

The user either requires a multimedia PC with 133 MHz Pentium processor, 32 MB RAM, min. 200 MB free memory capacity, sound card, DVB Card and Windows 95 or 98 or Windows NT Server/Workstation, as well as a satellite receiver with Universal LNB and optional Internet access.

Or, the user has a television set with Set-Top box and DVB Card as well as a commercial satellite receiver with Universal LNB. Of the about 166 million television households in Europe 27 million already use a satellite receiver aligned to the ASTRA satellite system and are equipped with this infrastructure for access to the new digital multimedia world via "the viewer".

About deuromedia

deuromedia - Gesellschaft für elektronische Medien mbH is an international software and solution provider with company offices in Merzig at the heart of the European region Saar-Lor-Lux. deuromedia supplies a transmission and reception concept for broadband transmission based on the ASTRA satellite infrastructure to make digital contents accessible via the PC or TV which is now ready to be launched on the market. The software solutions offered by deuromedia enable a smooth convergence of all digital data channels and an individualised conveyance of information for the user.

With "the viewer" the product portfolio comprises a multimedia user interface as reception tool for the end user which combines the contents of TV, radio and Internet for the end user in orientation to events. In addition to the media desk platform for the workplace, business clients are offered the transmission tool skymail as well as the management software skymanager which enable point-to-point resp. point-to-multipoint data transfer.

The deuromedia solutions are applied in the fields infotainment, business TV, corporate TV, videoconferencing, point-of-information presence, e-commerce, teleworking and staff training, database comparison in addition to software updates/upgrades and distribution.

deuromedia was established in 1996 by Dieter Weber and currently has a staff force of over 100 employees focusing world wide on developing and selling software solutions. The Munich-based technology holding has had a share in the company since 1998. deuromedia is split into the divisions deuroconsult S.R.L. for development, platform sales to sell the transmission tools, the service company to sell channels for content providers and into the operating company in Luxembourg for traffic consulting.

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