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DVB shifts focus to digital future

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DVB Holdings will dispose of its computer monitor-making business in order to concentrate on the development of a new digital broadcasting service.

'We are planning to sell the [monitor-producing] business as soon as possible,' chief executive Bruno Wu Zheng said.

He said that after the disposal, the company would concentrate on its newly developed Chinese language-based digital video broadcasting system.

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The technology would allow the mainland's 70 million cable television viewers to access the Internet and perform functions such as video-on-demand or real-time information processing with a specifically designed set-top box, Mr Wu said.

The functionality of the prospective system could be more powerful than the similar technology of Microsoft's Venus, he said.

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'Our system could have at least four to five more functions than Venus.

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