A Tool for Quick and Easy Interactive TV Services Development

A Tool for Quick and Easy Interactive TV Services Development

GÜTERSLOH and RHEDA-WIEDENBRÜCK, Germany, July 27/PRNewswire/ --

- Nionex Offers a Free Demo Version of its MHP Platform pontegra

The information systems specialist Nionex provides its HTML-based
pontegra platform as a free download. The product makes the development of
interactive TV services simple, rapid and inexpensive in that any developer
with HTML skills can transfer content to interactive TV.

pontengra acts as a browser that supports a subset of DVB(1)-HTML with
full compatibility. Content and services can be readily loaded just like any
other MHP(1) application, using a commercially available set-top box. Much
more than just an ordinary browser, pontegra's open architecture makes it
the ideal iTV platform for all iTV services such as EPGs, iTV portals,
T-commerce, interactive TV game shows and viewer surveys, email, chatrooms
and much more.

Nionex is primarily a software development and media agency. Users can
test out pontegra for one month free of charge. Toward this end, the company
is offering a demo version of pontegra (www.nionex.com) that contains all the
key features of the full version. Users who wish to go beyond the scope of
the demo program can purchase an inexpensive developer's license that
provides a full-featured version of pontegra and enables the user to develop
and test MHP services quickly and easily.

Nionex will be at the IBC 2005 trade show, which will be held in
Amsterdam this coming September 9-13. You can find Nionex at booth 419, Hall
3.

(1) MHP and DVB are registered trademarks of the DVB project.

About Nionex

Nionex counts as one of Germany's fastest growing information systems
providers. The company is a leading supplier of customised content
management, cross media publishing, portal and media asset management,
customer relationship management, online shop and interactive TV solutions.

As a technology subsidiary of DirectGroup Bertelsmann, Nionex provides
customers with comprehensive services ranging from design to technical
realisation to the implementation of complete internet and iTV platforms. As
the world's first DVB-HTML based MHP platform, pontnegra is extremely well
positioned in the international market. Nionex counts among its customers
Altana Chemie, Bertelsmann AG, CLAAS KGaA, Humboldt University in Berlin,
MTV, RTL Television, RTL interactive GmbH, Telecontrol, Telenet, TRW
Automotive, Verlag Walter deGruyter and wissen.de.

Press contact:

Amelie Isabel Dettmer
Public Relations Manager
Tel.: +49-5242-914468
Fax: +49-5242-916972
email: pontegra@nionex.com

Web: http://www.nionex.com

Source: Nionex GmbH

Amelie Isabel Dettmer, Public Relations Manager, Tel.: +49-5242-914468, Fax: +49-5242-916972, email: pontegra@nionex.com

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