Berlin, 24th of August 2001 - Nokia today announced its cooperation with a variety of companies and content providers to work together to offer services on the Nokia Mediaterminal in Germany. The companies that have signed letters of intent include HypoVereinsbank, memIQ, Otto Versand, Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH, SES Multimédia S.A., Super RTL, Tipp24.de, urbia.com, TUI.de and wissen.de (Bertelsmann Arvato AG). The Linux-based Nokia Mediaterminal is an innovative device which provides consumers with access to digital television as well as to the full range of entertainment and information services of the internet.
The companies will demonstrate multimedia services which have been tailor-made for the Mediaterminal specifically for the Consumer Electronics' exhibition Internationale Funkausstellung(IFA). It is also the intention of the companies that they will occupy parts of the harddisc integrated in the Mediaterminal and / or of the user interface Nokia Navi (TM) Bars. Through the Mediaterminal the consumer can access any Internet page he or she likes, and also use the offerings particularly developed by the content providers for this product. Nokia Navi (TM) Bars offers space for approximately 50 partners.
"These companies have demonstrated their commitment to the living room of the future. With the Mediaterminal we have laid the foundations for a new dimension of entertainment and information via the TV screen. At the same time we offer interested companies not only an innovative marketing instrument but also an entirely new access to the customer", says Dr. Hartmut Voss, Director Sales and Marketing, Nokia GmbH, Nokia Home Communications.
The following applications will be shown on the Nokia Mediaterminal at IFA:
- With the portal wissen.de from Bertelsmann Arvato AG Europe's most important knowledge portal finds its ways into peoples' living-rooms.
- HypoVereinsbank will demonstrate how to carry out financial services on the TV set.
- A digital archive is being offered by the company memIQ.
- The mail order house Otto Versand will show a home-shopping service, tailor-made for the TV screen. Thanks to broadband transmission the consumer can watch interactive videoclips, download information on the articles as well as undertake shopping transactions with high speed.
- Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH, Ravensburger AG's subsidiary specialised on interactive media, will be present on the Mediaterminal with several games.
- SES Multimédia S.A., pioneer in the satellite transmission of interactive and multimedia services and operator of the ASTRA-NET Platform, will offer an informative information channel.
· Super RTL will demonstrate parts of its children's website www.TOGGO.de.
- Tipp24.de will show its online service for Lotto and Oddset.
- TUI.de will demonstrate its travel portal.
- The family platform urbia.com will offer visitors to the site the possibility to download information on the topic "family", join in discussion forums or organise family life with the help of the urbia services.
The Nokia Mediaterminal will be introduced in Germany in the first quarter of 2002. It will be delivered with integrated RealPlayer® technology from RealNetworks thus enabling consumers to use streaming media offerings. Consumers will also be able to send and receive e-mails, download, save and play MP3 music files or use Video-on-Demand services.
The applications and the Nokia Mediaterminal are being demonstrated in hall 2.2 on booth 06.
Meike Fuhlrott
Communications Officer
Nokia Home Communications
Tel: +49 21190895 590
e-mail: meike.fuhlrott@nokia.com
www.nokia.com