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To: Stoctrash who wrote (43541)	8/3/1999 1:35:00 PM
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NEWS BYTES INTERACTIVE TV 08/02/1999 Inside Multimedia (c) 1999 Phillips Business Information, Inc. Canal+ savage DVB Last month's Montreuax Symposium saw Canal+ throw a well rehearsed tantrum with the DVB, saying that its standard setting process is a sham. Canal+ claims that the DVB's Java standards are "vapourware" and instead are only an impediment to the creation of real standards. Canal+'s API, Mediahighway, lost out in the jostling for standards last year (IM 176) which has resulted in fragmented population of set top boxes running different API's and an unfortunate legacy problem, leaving the DVB struggling to create a backward's compatible standard that will serve all. Broadband Just inside the final frontier Last month's Paris airshow played host to Angel Technologies' air baloon. The company's zeppelin-type baloons is the first of a number designed for providing a cheaper equivalent to low flying satellite communication. The owners envisage baloons being moored over cities where they can deliver multicast data at speeds of up 10 gigabtes over a 75 mile radius. The same show also hosted a number of high altitude, high endurance airplanes designed for the same purpose. Kingston moves into space Kingston, the Hull based independent telco, has launched a satellite IP delivery system for Internet and multimedia, through its Kingston TLI, (TLI having been acquired by Kingston last year). The system uses American satellite's which have a footprint that covers Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, Scandanavia and the Middle East. Kingston will also offer "low cost"access to its London fibre circuits to its uplink service. The system will use DVB standards and expects to deliver speeds of up to 30Mbps. Recepients of the service can use a PC card (a PCI bus receiver that incorporates and MPEG 2 decoder), or a LAN workgroup receiver based on ehternet networks. Europe Online goes for date Europe Online Networks, the 'internet in the sky' venture run by Candice Johnson has announced the roll out date for its consumer net services: August 27th, in time for the International television Fair in Germany. The company is currently constructing an uplink site in Betzdorf. The inimtable Ms Johnson describes the service as being: "a true marriage of the sky and the earth." Quite. Technology Industry gets behind hard disc video TiVo, the company that manufactures digital video recorders (hard disc machines), which has been featured heavily in recent issues of IM, has secured investments from key businesses. Philips, Walt Disney, CBS TV, NBC, Microsoft's Paul Allen, and Direct TV have all taken equity stakes in the company, which expects to have its first products out before the end of the year, priced under five hundred dollars and capabale of storing up to 30 hours of TV. Portable DVD video A new series of IBM's ThinkPad portables, due for release in the autumn in the U.K, will be able to double as DVD video players. The notebooks will contain a video card and video out port that can be hooked up to any TV. DVD ROM starts to roll Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. plan to double their production of DVD ROM drives to over six million a year, owing to increased demand in the US and Japan, according to company announcements. Demand is reportedly greater in Japan however.