DTV Plus And AccessDTV Announce TotalCast Datacasting Service With WRAL-DT, Using Triveni's SkyScraper

18-Oct-01

Triveni Digital, the leading provider of high performance, open standards digital television (DTV) solutions for data enhanced broadcasting, announced that DTV Plus and Capitol Broadcasting Company have officially launched their TotalCast datacasting service using Triveni Digital technology, as of August 22.TotalCast is a service of DTV Plus that broadcasts broadband content directly to personal computers using the digital television signal. Current content includes video-on-demand from WRAL news, custom news ""microsite"" from WRAL.com, computer games, short films, software and other local programming. All of this content is received by the accessDTV Digital Media Receiver, a PCI card and software solution optimizing the full digital spectrum of audio, video and data content. The content is stored on the end user's hard disk where it is available for nearly instant access. Triveni Digital's technology provides the enabling infrastructure for TotalCast through its SkyScraper system, consisting of the SkyScraper DataFab/Hub and SkyScraper DataReceiver.""Triveni Digital has been a tremendous partner and enabler of the TotalCast service,"" said Sam Matheny, Vice President and General Manager of DTV Plus. ""We combined SkyScraper with our TotalCast modular content producer (MCP) to put our digital assets to work. We're using the digital spectrum to build new revenue opportunities for broadcasters."" Matheny goes on to say, ""TotalCast users have been delighted by the quality and array of content they can access without an Internet connection. Of particular interest has been the video-on-demand channels where TotalCast delivers high quality video directly to the PC and removes the aggravations associated with Internet streaming.""""We are pleased to complete the 'last mile' for both broadcasters and consumers in expanding the use of the DTV bandwidth,"" said Dewey Weaver, accessDTV President and CEO. ""Our leading receiver technology enables optimization of the digital broadcast signal by providing enhanced data services, as well as the superior picture and sound of digital TV. Triveni Digital and accessDTV have built a replicable model for datacast services and it's exciting to see DTV Plus putting this model into action with its TotalCast service.""Triveni Digital's SkyScraper DataFab/Hub was installed at WRAL for DTV Plus and provides the tools for DTV Plus to schedule, insert and manage enhanced data and bandwidth securely. Triveni Digital's SkyScraper DataReceiver middleware enables data extraction from the incoming ATSC transport stream and integrates with the accessDTV Digital Media Receiver and the TotalCast application software.""We very much appreciate our relationship with DTV Plus, a major partner of ours for quite some time,"" said Mark Simpson, President and CEO of Triveni Digital. ""Their pioneering approach will help to point the way forward for the rest of the industry. AccessDTV's innovative Digital Media Receiver adds a critical component to the data broadcasting platform, and helps to create a very compelling datacasting approach for the industry.""Triveni Digital and accessDTV are collaborating in digital TV data broadcasting and have succeeded in demonstrating a real-world solution to data broadcasting using off-the-shelf DTV receivers.For more information about accessDTV, visit www.accessDTV.com. DTV Plus is a division of Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. For more information about Triveni Digital, visit www.trivenidigital.com.

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