DVB Holdings Turn On Digital Cable Technical Operation in Southern Jiangsu Province, China Utilizing nSTREAMS' dvbSTREAMS Digital Media Server.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- nSTREAMS Technologies, Inc. announced today that DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. (Holdings) Limited of Hong Kong, (SEHK SEHK See: Stock Exchange of Hong Kong :500HK), one of the world's largest digital cable broadcasting integrators, is ready to turn on its Chinese-language based comprehensive digital cable technical operation in Southern Jiangsu Province, China with a potential of 2+ million home pass utilizing nSTREAMS' dvbSTREAMS(TM) Digital Media Server to provide digital infrastructure, entertainment and educational contents. The end-to-end solution provided by DVB (Holdings) Limited employs technologies from LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic Corporation, NagraVision, Philips and nSTREAMS Technologies, Inc. LSI provides the core technology of the digital set top box; NagraVision, the conditional access system A conditional access system (CAS) is a system by which electronic transmission of digital media, especially satellite television signals through cable, is limited to subscribed clients. This is called conditional access. and Philips, the digital transmission system; nSTREAMS, the Digital Video Broadcast video server system. In this end-to-end solution architecture, nSTREAMS' Digital Video Broadcast compliant dvbSTREAMS(TM) Digital Media Server plays an important role of MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). video storage and reliable streaming. The video contents are encoded using nSTREAMS MPEG encoders to be stored digitally on dvbSTREAMS(TM) servers. The server real-time multiplexes several single program MPEG transport streams into one multiple program transport stream for digital delivery. It is used to provide normal scheduled programming and near video on demand services. According to Dr. Kung Chen of DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive Department of Academia Sinica, the technology consultant to DVB (Holdings) Limited, who qualified nSTREAMS servers: "The nSTREAMS server is a great fit for our digital cable offerings. The cost effectiveness of the servers fit the Chinese market nicely. And the ease of use of the equipment and software means major savings on the operational cost." About nSTREAMS Technologies, Inc. nSTREAMS Technologies, Inc. is a technology company specializing in digital media servers. Its digital media server products have been deployed in hotels worldwide providing Movie On Demand and Near Video On Demand services. The use of UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services with an open architecture, and PC components enables it to take full advantage of massive PC manufacturing and distribution capability of its parent companies: SYNNEX and MiTAC, world leading PC distributors and manufacturers. The relationship with SYNNEX Information Technologies, Inc. and MiTAC, Inc. enables nSTREAMS to offer a very affordable media server system with superior performance and reliability. |
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