Access Devices, Inc. Announces 300,000 2nd-Generation Units Shipped.LONDON & LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Access Devices, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ACDJ) (www.accessdevices.com) - a leading developer of digital television equipment (DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. ) - today announced that to date over 300,000 units of its 2nd-generation Digital Television set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. have been shipped. The majority of these shipments have been into United Kingdom retail distribution channels. In addition, since April 2005, the Company has commenced shipping units into a number of continental European territories. Supplying leading brands and leading retailers The quality and high performance of this latest design has generated significant sales success. It is being supplied to and marketed by some of the U.K. and Europe's leading consumer electronics brands and retailers. "We began 2nd-generation mass production last September," says Anthony S. Walton, Chief Executive Officer at Access Devices, "and we are now very pleased to be selling into some of Britain's most important retailers, including the Dixons Group, the largest electrical retailer in the United Kingdom. The demand for digital television throughout Europe is very strong and increasing month-by-month. With this growth and the success of our current and planned product introductions we are confident of more than doubling this number of units shipped by the end of 2005." About Access Devices Inc. Access Devices Inc.'s principal operating subsidiary An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. - Access Devices Digital - designs, controls manufacture, and sells Digital TV (DVB) access equipment and Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. TV (IPTV) equipment, generically referred to as set-top boxes (STBs). The company has a range of designs, including: Digital Video Broadcast --Digital Terrestrial TV decoder (DVB-T See DVB. ) products for the U.K. Freeview service and variants for European TV services. --Digital Terrestrial TV decoder (DVB-T) products with conditional access Conditional Access (acronymized CA) is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content. The term is commonly used in relation to digital television systems, most notably satellite television. (CA) for access to premium TV content, such as that broadcast by TopUpTV in the U.K. and various developing premium services in Europe. --DVB-T Personal Video Recorders - with and without conditional access - for U.K. and European markets that are expected to follow the U.S. example and show rapid and substantial growth. Internet Protocol TV --IPTV (Internet protocol TV) products providing video-on-demand over DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary . --Combination DVB-T decoder with an IP delivery/return path. --Access Devices Digital's IPTV products enable 'on-demand,' 'time shifted' services and true real-time interactivity. The company's products can seamlessly combine the TV broadcast and IP delivered content to enable broadcasters to develop new services across entertainment and commerce. Forward-looking statements Any statements in this release that are not statements of fact may be considered "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under the securities law in the United States. Forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual events or results. |
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