| Built on proven VOD architecture
of the MovieBeam Service, designed as a robust consumer
oriented service |
| Inexpensive in-room Set
Top Boxes (STBs), providing nearly 100 movies to
choose from. Using inexpensive Satellite
delivery to distribute content to all participating
hotels. |
| Highly efficient 'head end'
–Media Gateway (proprietary small server) at each
hotel, receiving the content from the Satellite,
and communicating back with our systems via the
Satellite. |
| Given that vast majority
of hotels (over 90%) now have and provide high speed
network access to the room, we would take advantage
of the available network to distribute the movies
to the STBs in the room (minimal impact on the hotel
available bandwidth) |
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| STBs will use the available
internet connection in each room only as 'backup'
to our highly reliable two-way satellite system. |
| STBs will use the hotel's
network connection to communicate the rental information
efficiently with the hotel PMS. |
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| Approved by all major Hollywood
Studios to securely provide highly popular new release
movies to hotel guests. |
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