Building on the fact that the systems are already widely used by the financial community, networked Sparcsystems from Sun Microsystems Inc running Solaris and Sun.Tuner will be the first Unix system for delivering NBC Desktop Video services to subscribers for the General Electric Co Inc broadcasting unit. Sun.Tuner is designed to provide access to broadcast and cable channels from Sun workstations as part of an overall desktop multimedia system, and the initial system is being aimed at Sun users in the financial community, who will be able to access NBC Desktop Video’s coverage of breaking business news, live or on-demand, from their workstations. Sun’s Interactive Services Group and NBC Desktop Video are also working together on application programming interfaces and interactive video technologies. NBC Desktop Video offers NBC Professional live coverage of market-moving events, breaking national and international news that affect markets and key corporate and government news conferences. NBC Private Financial Network has coverage of chief executive interviews, meetings, industry conferences and exclusive sessions from the New York Society of Security Analysts. And NBC Desktop Video on Demand is a multimedia tool for storage and retrieval of the other two services.
