At Streaming Media Europe 2001, Streambuster Technologies, a leading broadband entertainment solutions provider in Europe, and Microsoft Corp. unveiled Streambuster's Version II, a breakthrough new software solution built on the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server operating system and Windows Media™ Technologies. This solution offers streamed and downloadable video programming, including on-demand, full-length major motion pictures, on-air television broadcasts, and unique customized time-shifting streaming video services. Now broadband consumers can have the power to personalize and control when they can view streaming video of their favorite on-air television programs. Streambuster offers an innovative way for broadband Internet providers to deliver on-demand entertainment to broadband-connected PCs and to next-generation set-top boxes as they are deployed for the rapidly growing number of broadband consumers in Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe. IDC's April 2001 report projects broadband access among consumers in Western Europe will grow 256 percent in 2001 to nearly 5 million users. In 2004, the Internet broadband audience is expected to comprise 34 million households.
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