| Online Media A company formed by plc to exploit the RISC in television decoders. They are wooing plc to use the box in some of its trials. The box will be based on an core with additional circuits to enable to be decoded in software - possibly dedicated instructions for interpolation, inverse or table extraction. They have already moved audio to sillicon. The box will use Acorn's as the control environment and is also looking at putting and on it. Online will reduce component numbers and therefore cost by transferring functions presently on boards into the single RISC chip. The interactive set-top boxes are not limited to the television - personal computer videoconferencing and extended networking are being developed. Acorn already has partnerships with and Limited, News International, Alcatel NV and its majority shareholder Ing C & Co SpA. The company is presently wholly owned by Acorn, but eventually expects to bring in external investment. Online will start a four phase trial in Cambridge with Cambridge Cable Co, Advanced Telecommunications Modules Ltd. - the Hermann Hauser company promising super-cheap Asynchronous Transfer Mode - and Anglia Television, later this year. [Article by nobody@tandem.com cross-posted from tandem.news.computergram, 1994-07-7]. (1997-05-14) |
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