Interactive Multimedia Service Terminal for IMPRESS

This Paper describes the system configuration and implementation method of an IMPRES (Interactive Multimedia exPRESS) terminal. The terminal is developed in the form of a PC add-on board that is called MINIBA (Media and Network Interface Board Assembly). IMPRESS is a communication service platform that support various interactive multimedia services. The main objectives of developing IMPRESS are to implement DAVIC compliant services platform to verify DAVIC specification and to support testing environment. Currently IMPRESS terminal provides MPEG-2 quality movies on demand, switched video broadcasting, and home-shopping service to the service user, based on the ATM network.