Personal Video Recorder MediaTV from Axcent

Paderborn, Germany (PROTEXT) - At CeBIT 2000 Axcent Media AG will be the first European vendor to present a personal video recorder (PVR) for the broad consumer market. MediaTV not only keeps viewers independent of transmission and programme start times but also offers the individual viewer a TV programme to suit his personal interests. The fact that MediaTV uses the extensive, digital free TV offering and costs less than DM 1,500 now makes personal TV generally affordable. Around 250 stations in Europe currently broadcast digital programmes that can be received per satellite free of charge. From this wide offering MediaTV uses a profile entered by the user to select all the programmes of interest and records them automatically if so desired. Thus, for example the machine will record all "science fiction films" or all "films starring Richard Gere". What is more, MediaTV makes viewers independent of transmission and start times. As the appliance is able to play a recorded programme with a time stagger while it is still recording, viewers can, for example, simply delay kick-off in a soccer game by half an hour until they get home in the evening. Completely independently of recording times, MediaTV allows programmes not only to be played but also halted, rewound or shown in slow motion. MediaTV receives the free TV programmes that are broadcast over satellite in its integrated digital receiver and saves the contents to its hard disk. The devices offer complete video recorder functionality when it comes to recording and playing content. However, MediaTV is 'programmed' via an integrated clearly structured programme journal, easier to use than on any other device. This detailed information on all station programmes is broadcast regularly per satellite. Axcent will offer this data service free of charge for MediaTV. MediaTV can also be used as a platform for the new multimedia services which are offered per cable network, satellite, ADSL or the Internet hand in hand with the progress made by digital television. ots Original Text Service: Axcent MediaAG Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact:AXCENT MediaAG CeBIT2000, Hanover, Hall4, Acer Competence-Centre, Stand52 No.35 Technologiepark 13 D-33100 Paderborn Tel.:+49(0)5251/1650-0 Fax:+49(0)5251/165099 Web:www.axcent.de Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial service providing distribution of press releases from clients, who are identified in the text of Protext reports and who bear full responsibility for their contents. PROTEXT