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24/04/96
WORLD FIRST - ACORN ONLINE MEDIA BRINGS INTERNET ACCESS TO UK INTERACTIVE
TV TRIAL
- Acorn's innovative technology marches on ...
Cambridge, England - Acorn Online Media has enabled users of the
Cambridge Interactive Television Trial to access the World Wide Web
through their domestic TV sets.
As with all of the services available on the Trial, access and navigation
is controlled by a simple VCR-style infra-red handset. The web access is
fully integrated with the other services such as video and audio on
demand and fast cached Teletext, a text service for ITV and Channel Four,
providing viewers with 24 hour, up-to-the-minute national and regional
information. Video and audio can be launched from web pages, and if a
Teletext page contains a web link, the user can visit that web page with
a single press of a button.
Alan Clarke, Cambridge Trial Services Manager, says: "Interactive
television is not simply about video on demand, games, or home shopping -
it is about giving the user access to the widest possible set of
information and entertainment services, presented in a simple and
accessible manner. Having the internet on the trial takes this a step
further, for example, if you look at a web page with an associated video
clip, over narrowband you get text only, but over a broadband network you
can play video or CD quality audio."
Each home or school on the Trial is connected to the central server by a
2 Mbit/sec ATM link. Therefore, graphics (a notoriously slow part of
conventional web access from PCs) appear almost instantaneously.
Last week, Acorn Online Media's 32-bit RISC intelligent digital set-top
box, the STB2, used on the Cambridge Trial, won the 'Most innovative
cable or satellite telecommunications product' award at the 1996 Cable &
Satellite Show. The STB2 was the first product to be based on the
ground-breaking ARM7500 chip, developed by Advanced RISC Machines Ltd
(ARM) and Acorn. It is commercially available and licensable.
Notes to Editors:
Acorn Computer Group plc is one of the leading groups of high technology
innovators and suppliers and comprises three divisions: Acorn Risc
Technologies, Acorn Network Computing, and Acorn Online Media. The group
also owns a 43% shareholding of Advanced RISC Machines Ltd (ARM) and 50%
share of Xemplar Education Ltd, a new joint venture company combining
Acorn and Apple's UK schools' IT business.
Acorn Online Media focuses on the sales and marketing of products,
services and licenses which exploit emerging world standards in
interactive multimedia, from Internet to broadband digital iTV.
Acorn Risc Technologies designs and develops advanced technology products
based on the ARM microprocessor. The division will support existing RISC
OS products for the educational joint venture and develop products to
support the strategy for the migration to future technologies.
Acorn Network Computing was established in February 1996 to develop
designs for a range of network computing products.
Acorn's home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.acorn.co.uk/
For further press information and photography, please contact:
Acorn Group:
Kevin Coleman or Chris Wright/Michelle Carney
Acorn Computer Group Text 100 - for Acorn press enquiries
01223 725005 0181 242 4162/4181
kcoleman@acorn.co.uk chrisw@text100.co.uk
Acorn and the Acorn device, Acorn Online Media and the Om device, Acorn
Risc Technologies and the ART device, and Acorn Networking Computing are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Acorn Computer Group plc. All
other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders, and are hereby acknowledged.
PR34-96