Nokia Oy’s consumer electronics division will announce its set-top box decoder next month at a Berlin Multimedia trade show: the decoder uses Motorola Inc’s 68340 emdedded processor and will run two operating systems, Microware Systems Corp’s OS-9 for pre-written application software such as games, home banking and home shopping and its own more basic proprietary operating system used to receive digital and satellite transmissions. Nokia said the decoder is about the size of a compact disk player and has connectors to compact disk devices, printers, joystick and Internet access software. It was developed with Kirch Group and trial use in Germany is scheduled for end 1995 and on a wider scale next year.
