Boca Research Set-Top Boxes Enable Oracle Video-on-Demand Demo at NAB99 Multimedia World Keynote
Business Wire - May 24, 1999 09:14
BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 1999--
NAB99
Oracle Corporation uses BocaVision Set-Top Boxes to Highlight Vision for Digital Television
Boca Research, Inc.(R) (Nasdaq:BOCI) today announced that two of the Company's set-top boxes, prototypes of new products in the family of BocaVison(TM) ST2001 information appliances, were used in the MultiMedia World Keynote address at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB99) conference held last month in Las Vegas. Larry Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of Oracle(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL), used the Boca Research set-top boxes to enable a demo to illustrate his vision of the future for digital television. The prepackaged scalable system solution that he demonstrated would enable any broadcast, satellite, cable, or telecom to deliver the basic services associated with interactive TV, including video-on-demand, e-commerce, distance learning, Web access, and e-mail. With the video-on-demand VCR-like control capability, supported on the BocaVision set-top box, and using software from Liberate Technologies (formerly Network Computer, Inc.), consumers would use an electronic program guide to choose a program just aired, or browse through a menu of stored selections. Consumers will be able to view on their own TV what they want, when they want, with broadcast quality.
Mark Porter, vice president of Oracle's Interactive Television Division stated, "Never before has this amount of information been available reliably, securely, economically to consumers. Oracle's superb iTV platform, together with Liberate's software, and Boca Research's expertise in set-top technology, provides a superior consumer interactive television solution."
"We are excited about the concept of digital entertainment TV and pleased that Oracle chose to use Boca Research's set-top box technology to highlight these capabilities at the NAB99 conference," said Anthony Zalenski, president and chief executive officer for Boca Research.
Larry Ellison's keynote address at NAB99 can be viewed online at webevents.broadcast.com.
Boca Research Corporate Information
Founded in 1985, Boca Research is a leading provider of hardware and software technology. Boca Research provides communications solutions that enable data transmission, connectivity of devices, and access to applications and information via the Internet, personal computers, and/or server-based environments. The Company designs, manufactures, markets, and supports quality, innovative products that have a cost, performance, and time-to-market advantage.
Boca Research markets modems, thin client/server computing devices, information appliances, I/O cards and multiport products under the Boca Research name. The Company also markets modems and software under the Global Village(R) brand name. Products are sold worldwide through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), wholesale distributors, value-added resellers (VARs), and retailers. Boca Research is a U.S. corporation headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida with international operations and ventures worldwide.
Notes to Editors: For copies of recent press releases from Boca Research via fax, call 800-331-1323. For product or company information via the Internet, visit our Web sites at bocaresearch.com and globalvillage.com.
Boca Research Inc. and Global Village are registered trademarks, and BocaVision is a trademark of Boca Research, Inc.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation.
All other products and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Boca Research, Inc., Boca Raton
Sandra Humphrey, Director of Corporate Communications
561/997-6227, ext. 305
sandrah@bocaresearch.com
or
Chuck Sanchez, Product Public Relations
408/548-2342
chuck_sanchez@bocaresearch.com
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