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To: John Rieman who wrote (31964)	4/7/1998 9:46:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Project Mummy Bear... Cube inside NDS via Zenith... NDS selects Zenith digital set-top-boxes for Project Mummy Bear NDS, a leading provider of end-to-end digital broadcasting solutions, today announced that it has selected Zenith Electronics Corporation to supply digital set-top-boxes for its Project Mummy Bear (code name) end-to-end digital video system. The Zenith World Box is designed and configured to interact seamlessly with NDS' software, conditional access and headend products. As a result of the integration of NDS and Zenith products, network operators may rapidly deploy Zenith digital World Boxes within NDS' Project Mummy Bear system. "Zenith is a world leader in digital television technology and the ideal partner to provide IRDs for our new Project Mummy Bear. Together, we can give broadcasters with up to a million subscribers the flexibility and reliability they need in an end-to-end digital system," says Dr. Abe Peled, CEO of NDS. Project Mummy Bear is a complete end-to-end digital broadcasting system, ideally suited to the requirements of medium sized broadcasters with up to a million subscribers. With Project Mummy Bear NDS' expertise and end-to-end concept is available to small and medium broadcasters, giving them the performance, flexibility and reliability features of NDS's largest end-to-end systems, at a fraction of the cost. It is particularly useful for broadcasters who operate on a regional basis or in small or developing markets and can be used for cable, satellite or digital terrestrial services. Project Mummy Bear complements NDS' Project Baby Bear, being formally launched at IBC as NDS Director, which is designed for smaller broadcasters in areas such as Business TV. Zenith also will supply set-top-boxes for NDS Director. NDS is a recognised leader in providing end-to-end digital broadcasting systems to large-scale broadcasters around the world, and the company has vast experience of both the technology and the business of pay TV. "NDS' knowledge combined with our industry leading digital receiver/decoder technology produces a strong partnership which we are excited to be a part of," says William G. Luehrs, president of Zenith's Network Systems Division. Zenith's first product for Project Mummy Bear is an advanced satellite Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) World Box which combines the latest in large-scale IC design with the winning technology of NDS software systems and security. This next-generation set-top unit - with MPEG-2 video, MPEG audio with sampling rates up to 48Khz and QPSK demodulation - represents the latest in digital receiver technology. The World Box IRD' capabilities are broadly directed to meet the requirements of system operators in all major world markets. These products support variants of PAL and NTSC television standards, as well as SECAM, and include a universal power supply, and universal symbol support - which meet the needs of users in all markets. The Zenith World Box satellite IRD was selected earlier this week for Sky Latin America, a strategic alliance which includes News Corporation. The IRD is part of the Zenith family of World Box products that support direct broadcast satellite (DBS) systems, and can accommodate alternative transmission methods via digital terrestrial as well as cable and wireless MMDS. continued... ndsworld.com Take the quiz John and win some champagne, you read enough... ndsworld.com

To: John Rieman who wrote (31964)	4/7/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Microsoft, Sony agree on HDTV standards dailynews.yahoo.com Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. on Tuesday agreed to support standards for high definition television as part of an effort to "create a convergence" between PCs and home electronics. While the deal does not immediately translate to new products for consumers, it is a step toward resolving ongoing conflicts over standards for digital television. Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) also announced Tuesday that they would cross-license each other's software for home electronics products. ..... The companies agreed to support and endorse various digital TV formats that will work... (cont) ----------------------------------------------------- Microsoft, Sony aim to converge PCs and home electronics dailynews.yahoo.com Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. announced plans today to cross-license software, including the Windows CE operating system, as part of an effort to "create a convergence," between PCs and home electronics. The deal also calls for Microsoft (MSFT) to license Sony's Home Networking Module, a middleware product that supports home networking standards, in versions of Windows CE. The two companies also agreed to support and endorse various digital TV formats that will work in PCs and in televisions, and support the fastest standard for production, transmission and reception of digital signals. Also, both companies agreed to support the use of 1080-interlaced pixel resolution as the preferred format for high definition television. Sony (SNE) also agreed to support the Advanced Television Systems Committee's transmission formats, including progressive scan, or non-interlaced, formats.

To: John Rieman who wrote (31964)	4/8/1998 4:33:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

SkyStream teams with Tektronix to offer data delivery along with MPEG-2 broadcast streams. DiviCom already does this. Skystream's CEO was previously with 3Com and HP's video server division....... techweb.cmp.com <<The startup also announced a strategic partnership with Tektronix Inc. (Wilsonville, Ore.), under which the companies will develop products "for digital audio, video and data uplink and head-end applications," according to SkyStream. Backed by a team of engineers with expertise in both digital-video broadcasting and data networking, SkyStream's mission is "to bring standards-based, MPEG/IP networking equipment to a broadcast market," said James Olson, chief executive officer. Olson himself is no stranger to either field. Most recently, he was senior vice president at networking giant 3Com Corp. Prior to that he was general manager for the video communications division of Hewlett-Packard Co., where he was responsible for kick-starting HP's entry into the broadcast-video server business.>>

To: John Rieman who wrote (31964)	4/8/1998 5:09:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Packard-Bell and DVD-ROM............ techweb.com <<The new line also includes Packard Bell's first 266-MHz Intel Celeron-based PC, the model 710, which retails for $1,199. The company decided against introducing a step-up piece, the model 715, which would have come with a digital video disk-ROM drive. Packard Bell is also shipping a $1,399 266-MHz Intel Pentium II-based piece, along with several 333-MHz Pentium II models, one of which is equipped with a DVD-ROM drive.>>