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To: J Fieb who wrote (39001)	2/20/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

The UK's Adherent has new MPEG test equip. for NAB....... adherent.com Adherent's Stream Station II - "Two for the Price of One" at NAB99 Cambridge, England. After winning three industry awards at last year's NAB exhibition for their range of monitoring and test equipment Adherent Systems will be returning to demonstrate their new AD953-II Stream Station II real time and offline analysis tool. The Stream Station II MPEG-2/DVB/ATSC real time and offline analysis tool is the successor of the award winning Stream Station. As well as adding significant functionality to the original system Stream Station II now supports both the ATSC and DVB formats, quite literally "two for the price of one"! New features designed to help equipment developers, system integrators and broadcasters include: Playout and recording of transport streams at up to 90 Mbits / sec A software multiplexer for the generation of test streams under full user control Full real time monitoring of incoming streams (according to the ATSC A/53 and A/65 (PSIP) standards), including Huffman decoding of ATSC service information Picture display and in depth video analysis Simultaneous playout and record Seamless looped playout of transport streams Greatly enhanced analysis speed on Pentium IIä platform Adherent will be demonstrating their range of products on the stand of Adherent's US distributor, Sencore in the Las Vegas Convention Center stand L12609. NAB runs from 19th to 22nd April in Las Vegas. Notes to Editors Data sheets and colour pictures of Stream Station II are available on request. AD953-II Stream Station II, is a MPEG-2/DVB/ATSC digital video tester capable of recording, playing out and analysing digital video bit streams. The AD953P-II Portable Stream Station II is also available. Multiplexer. A multiplexer allows a you to disassemble and reassemble digital video streams while customising the System Information (SI) and Program Specific Information (PSI). PSI/PSIP/SI. The data tables associated with a digital video stream used to allow the set top box or integrated television to decode the material. Adherent Systems designs and manufactures test equipment for the digital video broadcast industry. Adherent is based at the Vision Park, Histon, Cambridge UK. DIVI was going to use Adherent's tools in their systems..... Adherent Announces Real Time Monitoring OEM deal with DiviCom at IBC 98 Cambridge, England. Adherent Systems today announced the signing of a major new OEM deal to supply the US encoder manufacturer DiviCom with real time digital video monitoring technology. The deal signed at IBC will enable the functionality of Adherent's award winning SV970 Stream View multi stream real time monitor to be integrated with the DiviCom THESYSTM network management system. THESYS provides complete digital video facility management in conjunction with DiviCom MPEG-2 compression systems. Commenting on the agreement, Ian Valentine Adherent's MD said " The strategic partnership with DiviCom will greatly compliment our global sales channel and provide a complete system solution for broadcasters. The combination of DiviCom's compression technology and Adherent's proven measurement capability provides broadcasters with optimum bandwidth utilisation and picture decodability." He continued "This is an industry first, we believe it's an important partnership for Adherent." With the rollout of digital satellite, cable and terrestrial tv throughout Europe and the rest of the world the ability to check transmissions for decodability by the subscriber is critically important to broadcasters. The better use of bandwidth enabled by digital TV and the implied massive growth in the number of channels and associated consumer choice will mean that automated monitoring for quality assurance will become mandatory. The technology supplied to DiviCom by Adherent will facilitate this automation.

To: J Fieb who wrote (39001)	2/20/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Advanced Television Enhancement Forum..................... intercast.org A one-way IP multicast based resource transfer protocol, the Unidirectional Hypertext Transfer Protocol (UHTTP) is defined in Appendix A. UHTTP is a simple, robust, one-way resource transfer protocol that is designed to efficiently deliver resource data in a one-way broadcast-only environment. This resource transfer protocol is appropriate for IP multicast over television vertical blanking interval (IPVBI), in IP multicast carried in MPEG-2, or in other unidirectional transport systems. currents.net Thomson is a state-owned consumer electronics developer controlled by the government of France. That country announced that it would sell 30 percent of the company to Microsoft, Alcatel, NEC and DirecTV as new partners in order to "strengthen (Thomson's) industrial and commercial strategy and assure its position as a business leader in several areas of the information technology market." The recapitalization of Thomson was approved in September 1997. For its part, Microsoft said that it will work to design and market enhanced televisions including an electronic guide program and applications for interactive television programs. According to some reports, Microsoft said that it will develop "html-rendering" technologies based on the Windows CE operating system for use in the machines. The final product will include an integrated TV receiver, in both digital and analog versions, providing levels of interactivity today available only through set-top boxes, Microsoft said.