Triveni Digital’s SkyScraper™ data broadcasting system helps New Jersey Network in its mission of advancing public education
Princeton, NJ, April 6, 2000
Triveni Digital (formerly LG Electronics Research Center of America) and New Jersey Network, New Jersey’s PBS affiliate, announced today the successful launch of data broadcasting (datacasting) of PBS’s The Whole Child web site (www.pbs.org/wholechild/) contents on NJN’s digital television spectrum (digital channel 43) using Triveni Digital’s SkyScraper™ data broadcasting system.
Triveni Digital’s SkyScraper data broadcasting system is based on a unique and innovative componentized architecture to support a variety of business models for end-to-end data broadcasting solutions in flexible ways. The SkyScraper DataFab component provides content management, scheduling and customer subscription features allowing information providers to prepare and send their data to DTV stations for data broadcasting using the digital television bandwidth. The SkyScraper DataHub component allows a DTV station to manage bandwidth allocated to several concurrent services and charge for bandwidth usage for maximum flexibility in datacasting. The SkyScraper DataReceiver component is a PC-based DTV receiver that allows (business or consumer) end users to receive, record and display digital television audio/video streams, as well as data broadcast streams on PCs.
The Whole Child is a multimedia service produced by Detroit Public Television that includes a broadcast component, CD ROM, audio cassette, software and an extensive online component focusing on the development of children.
Triveni Digital will also demonstrate datacasting of The Whole Child web site contents at NAB 2000 trade show in Sands Expo (S-3259) at Las Vegas from April 10-13, 2000.
"We are happy to partner with NJN to test this new technology and maximize NJN’s digital television bandwidth" said Mark Simpson, President of Triveni Digital. "Using the SkyScraper system for data broadcasting The Whole Child web site, NJN is eliminating the Internet bottleneck. PCs equipped with SkyScraper DataReceiver plug-in card can receive the contents of the web site at a much higher bandwidth (as much as 19.39 Mbps), which is almost 350 times that of a 56.6 kbps telephone modem and almost 20 times that of a typical cable modem."
"As NJN continues to prepare for its conversion to digital broadcasting," said NJN Executive Director Elizabeth Christopherson, "we are eager to develop new partnerships and projects that help us expand our educational programs and services using multiple delivery platforms. NJN’s partnership with Triveni to datacast The Whole Child web site reflects NJN’s commitment to use digital technology for the public good, providing access to more information and more educational opportunities that can enhance and enrich people’s lives."
About Triveni Digital
Triveni Digital (formerly LG Electronics Research Center of America), a subsidiary of LG Electronics, was founded in 1997 in Princeton, New Jersey. Triveni Digital develops digital television software, systems and solutions, focusing on ATSC PSIP systems and solutions, data broadcasting systems and solutions, and instruments for analyzing and monitoring the integrity of complex ATSC transport streams and signals. It is working with a number of partners to bring innovative products based on open and standards-compliant architecture to market. Triveni Digital’s staff brings years of experience in industrial research and leading edge product development to bear on the emerging DTV industry.
About NJN
New Jersey Network (NJN) is New Jersey’s public television and radio network, providing access to award-winning programs and services that emphasize the special educational, cultural and informational needs of New Jersey. A PBS member, NJN Public Television has been on the air since 1971 and is the state’s only broadcast network to reach all 2.85 million New Jersey television households, including the approximately 30 percent without cable. NJN Public Radio, an NPR member station and PRI affiliate, operates on seven stations, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In October 1999, NJN launched New Jersey’s first digital broadcast signal and was one of the first ten PBS stations nationwide to broadcast digitally. Also in October 1999, NJN was one of seven public television stations nationwide to win a highly competitive federal NTIA grant to be used to initiate its digital television broadcast. Working in partnership with Triveni, NJN participated in the first-eve nationwide data broadcast demonstration during PBS Digital Week in October 1999.
