Dive into the digital experience with deuromedia

No one can complain about a lack of visitors to Luxembourg's Multimedia Pavilion. In this area of the EXPO2000, visitors will see many things to make multimedia fans go weak at the knees. It is not so much the number of special features on show, but the platform on which the content is presented.

Convergence is the magic word: the merger of different media such as TV, radio and PC. At any of the 45 terminals, EXPO2000 visitors can interactively experience newscasts from the Internet, music videos, sport and culture clips as well as radio broadcasts and everything else that makes up the digital experience.

Multimedia: a medium for all media

Reading the daily newspaper transmitted to the computer screen via satellite; exchanging documents in a video conference; seeing the hit film you missed first time round by video-on-demand with the latest share prices or sport results displayed - this is the scenario of the future. At the EXPO2000, deuromedia shows visitors that such a future is just around the corner.

The software house provides various modules for transmission, handling and reception of content in a broadband format. deuromedia provides a turnkey platform with its business variant of the multimedia browser "the viewer": digital TV and radio data as well as Internet content via satellite are received using a DVB card and shown on the terminal in full-screen picture mode.

Around the world in four minutes

In the multimedia pavilion, visitors can see cultural monuments from all over the world in a short film entitled "Around the world in four minutes." It is not just a matter-of-course that multimedia applications can travel around the world in four minutes. An enormous bandwidth is required to transmit the huge multimedia files.

However, these days, satellites provide the infrastructure with the capacity required to transport large quantities of data. deuromedia presents its transmission and reception concept at the EXPO2000. Together with its partner responsible for the satellite infrastructure, S.E.S. ("Société Européenne des Satellites" - the operator of the ASTRA satellite system), deuromedia provides a unique multimedia experience at the EXPO2000.

Users are only interested in content

deuromedia's solutions enable a seamless convergence of TV, radio, PC and Internet. The borders of traditional access technologies are overcome by the use of the DVB standard: broadband technology via satellite or cable. This is how visitors to the EXPO2000 experience it: they can concentrate entirely on the content - completely independent of the media format. The content is then called up by a server, whether TV or radio data, video or Internet content. The data is processed in formats such as MPEG1, MPEG2 and 4, MP3, AVI, MOV ASF, etc., and shown in crystal-clear, full-screen picture mode. The Microsoft Internet Explorer is used to receive multimedia applications at the PC terminals.

"The great interest shown in the multimedia pavilion and our solutions shows that visitors are very interested in the development of media," says deuromedia CEO, Dieter Weber. "The large number of visitors is proof that our solutions are a contribution to the future of the media environment."

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