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- Chicago - January 12, 1996 - Visual Information Service Corp. (VISCORP),
- an INTERACTIVE TV
- developer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and AMIGA Technologies GmbH,
- headquartered in
- Bensheim, Germany, have finalized an international license agreement to
- adapt, utilize, license and
- distribute the AMIGA technology within VISCORP's interactive intelligent
- set-top TV appliance -
- Electronic Device (ED). The license authorizes VISCORP the right to use,
- re-license and distribute the
- AMIGA atible parts of current versions of the
- technologies where the
- AMIGA products are used as, or as part of, interactive television devices.
-
- In 1995, ESCOM AG acquired all Commodore and AMIGA licenses, patents and
- trademarks. Amiga
- is an acknowledged leader in the computer industry in the area of
- providing high-quality graphics for
- monitors and television broadcasts through their sophisticated chip sets.
- The combination of the
- AMIGA hardware/software technologies and intuitive operating system makes
- them a viable
- contender in the development of high-speed delivery for complex graphic
- programming. The AMIGA
- technology can import and adapt software to the set-top box with minimal
- changes.
-
- By employing the sophisticated AMIGA chip set, VISCORP will have the
- ability to provide a
- complex set-top appliance withmultitasking functions to integrate
- affordably the TV set, phone line,
- and network service providers. This ability has not yet been offered or
- available through existing
- systems" said Jerome Greenberg, VISCORP's chairman of the board. "By
- utilizing our unique set top
- appliance and incorporating the AMIGA technology, VISCORP is able to
- provide a complete practical
- solution for interactive TV-services, and now the ability to access the
- Internet through a standard TV
- set with pricing that makes sense for the average TV viewer".
-
- The integration of the AMIGA system with the VISCORP set-top appliance
- will allow access to the
- Internet, on-line services and voice "chat" programs through the T
- V set.
- As planned, ED will access
- any on-line services and any address on the Internet's superhighway.
- Access can be though a TV
- remote, a computer keyboard, a touch-sensitive pen or the microphone in
- the ED. Additional plans
- will enable consumers to play games (e.g., individually, against a
- networked opponent), or enable
- home shopping, electronic banking, and enable a subscriber to gain access
- to information services
- through a TV set.
- About VISCORP
-
- VISCORP develops and markets a brand of cost effective set-top appliances
- for the home, business,
- government and educational users of interactive TV devices. VISCORP's
- set-top device integrates the
- television and telephone line to access on-line services, interactive
- applications and direct Internet
- service through the TV set. Through blending of the existing VISCORP
- set-top TV appliance and the
- AMIGA technology, VISCORP will be able to provide a gateway for every
- household to enter into
- the age of interactive services at a cost-effective price and user
- friendly environment.
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