General Instrument and Intertainer Agree to Offer
Intertainer's Entertainment-On-Demand Service on GI
Set-Top Terminals
Intertainer Becomes Latest Member of GI's Horizon Developers Program
HORSHAM, Pa., and CULVER CITY, Calif., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- General
Instrument Corporation (NYSE: GIC) and Intertainer Inc. today announced that the two
companies will integrate Intertainer's entertainment-on-demand service to enable it to
operate on GI's industry leading interactive digital platform. Intertainer has become a
member of GI's Horizon Digital Developers Program, which is designed to foster
creativity by developers to create compelling new revenue-generating services for the
broadband market.
As an authorized software developer for GI's interactive digital set-top terminals,
Intertainer will provide movies, music, television, information programming, interactive
advertising and e-commerce to the cable industry. Intertainer will run on GI's DCT-5000+
digital terminals using PersonalJava technology over GI's advanced interactive
broadband network.
"The combined expertise of Intertainer and General Instrument will allow cable operators
to increase revenues by offering value-added enhanced services," said Jonathan Taplin,
Intertainer's co-founder and co-chief executive officer. "Enhanced digital systems with
PersonalJava and other advanced features, such as GI's DCT-5000+ make
entertainment-on-demand more accessible for the cable industry by easing
implementation and increasing profits."
"General Instrument is delighted to welcome Intertainer to the Horizon Developers
Program," said Denton Kanouff, Vice-President Marketing if GI's Digital Network
Systems business unit. "Interactive, on-demand services like Intertainer are a strong
force in the future of digital cable. We look forward to working together as Intertainer
moves onto GI's interactive digital terminals."
The DCT-5000+, which will begin shipping mid-'99, is the most advanced interactive
digital consumer platform available. It builds upon GI's existing interactive digital network
providing a whole new level of broadband networking services while maintaining support
for the traditional analog and digital video services. GI's DCT-5000+ utilizes a unique
Triple-Tuner architecture to allow consumers to simultaneously watch video, surf the
Internet and talk using IP telephony services over GI's advanced network. The DCT
5000+, along with currently deployed DCT 1000, DCT 1200 and DCT 2000 digital
terminals are part of GI's agreement to supply over 15 million advanced digital set-top
terminals over the next 3-5 years to twelve leading cable system operators under the
industry's Open Cable specifications.
About Intertainer
Intertainer, Inc. (http://www.intertainer.com), a leading provider of home entertainment
services on-demand, is defining the convergence of entertainment and technology.
Intertainer, with its strategic partners -- Comcast, U S WEST, Sony, Intel and NBC --
provides customers with a personal gateway to thousands of hours of diverse movies,
music, TV, shopping and information programming to the PC or TV using high speed
data lines over cable or telephone connections. Intertainer also has solid relationships
with leading companies in the broadband space, including Veon, Concurrent Computer
Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Cisco Systems. Intertainer is a charter member of
Cisco's "Built for Broadband" program.
About General Instrument Corporation
General Instrument Corporation (NYSE: GIC) is a leading worldwide provider of
integrated and interactive broadband access solutions, teaming with its business
partners to lead the convergence of the Internet, telecommunications and video
entertainment industries.
SOURCE General Instrument Corporation
/CONTACT: Media, Sharon Corbitt, Director of Communications,
215-323-1873, or, scorbitt@gi.com, or Investor, Dario Santana, VP, Investor
Relations, 215-323-1617, or, dsantana@gi.com, both of GI, or Caroline Meyer
of BSMG Worldwide, 310-966-5512, or, cmeyer@bsmg.com, for Intertainer/
/Web site: intertainer.com
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