E-xtend the Internet, including content scheduling, distribution, security, presentation and payment. For consumers, Wavexpress makes the Internet instant, convenient, secure and private. Secure applications and transactions, available through Wave's Embassy device. The high-speed broadcast transmission allows the provision of large amounts of digital information to consumers. This is both the reason why most Internet sites have very little video content, and the key factor retaining consumers to traditional TV programming.
Broadcast is a hyper-efficient distribution mechanism.
Wavexpress technologies and services enable the simultaneous broadcast and viewing of audio, video and data in DTV channels. A Terabyte is 100,000 Megabytes, the most familiar measure of storage to most PC users. For comparison, a 1999 study by Sarnoff Corporation on behalf of the US government put the size of the entire Internet at that time at approximately 3 Terabytes. All day long new programs will be arriving, and only the ability of the Consumer to store those programs restricts their ability to view them later. State of the art disk drives for PCs are currently 75 Gigabytes, doubling every 12 months in size.