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...Welcome to the future of entertainment, in which highly interactive, highly personalized content is delivered via fast two-way connections over TVs - as well as PCs and mobile phones. You will never watch TV the same way again...
...sound card and a digital video-broadcasting card. A new portal will allow subscribers to customize the streaming video they receive over their PCs. Of course the company's target audience is much larger - the 80 million European satellite and cable TV households currently receiving television and audio via Astra's satellites. These potential customers will need set-top boxes built to Europe Online's specifications, which are scheduled to go on sale this autumn from $280 to $370. In the meantime, Europe Online expects to sell its digital programming to regular TV broadcasters. Now that's convergence...
From its headquarters in the shadow of a former summer residence of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Europe Online is pioneering the delivery mechanisms and the content that will allow Europeans to receive Internet-based interactive entertainment via their PCs and televisions. "Others talk about it, we are doing it," says founder Candace Johnson, 48, who also co-founded Luxembourg's Astra, Europe's leading direct-to-home satellite system...
...combination of Europe Online's programming and delivery operations and Astra's satellites means that music, software and games can be downloaded fast, at around 2MB/second. A graphic-rich video game like Arabian Nights, which Europe Online now offers over the Internet, takes only 42 seconds to download via Europe Online vs. 32 minutes using a regular 56KB/second telephone dial-up connection. The reason Europe Online is so speedy is that its network uses multiple technologies for the up-link to the satellite. Among them: cable modems, integrated services digital network (ISDN) lines, digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless application protocol...
...hard disc, video on demand, a file audio player, e-mail, 3D games, digital radio and connections to devices such as printers and cameras. For its part Hitachi will be showing how smart cards can be inserted into set-top boxes to purchase music from the Internet via...