“Urbana.ca Inc.’s…wholly-owned subsidiary Urbana.ca
Enterprises Corp., Eagle Wireless…and USA Video
Interactive…three leaders in video and Internet innovation, today
announced their intentions to produce a set-top box that
incorporates both the Linux operating system and USA Video
Interactive’s Wavelet Video-on-Demand(tm) system. The new set-top
box is set to launch in early 2000 and will open the world of
quality video, video-on-demand, Internet access and television
broadcast to a vast market of residences and multiple dwelling
units, such as apartments and condominiums….”
“Urbana.ca Inc. President Jason Cassis commented, “We are
excited to begin our project with Eagle Wireless and USA Video
Interactive. USA Video Interactive’s compression technology Wavelet
is highly adaptable to several projects we have underway.
Utilizing a Linux platform will provide the necessary
flexibility and high reliability to create the optimal set-top-box
that should appeal to thousands of consumers.“
“Linux is one of the most important, fastest growing platforms
in the world today, and it is having a huge impact on the future of
the Internet,” said Edwin Molina, President of USA Video
Interactive. “By combining our technologies with those of Eagle and
Urbana, we are creating a set-top box with unequalled capabilities
just as the market opens up for a device that truly achieves
convergence of the many communications technologies existing today
and under development for the future.”