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Sony Introduces VideoStore

For Galaxy and Mercury

Pictured is the Sony Theater, recently installed on Celebrity cruise ships Galaxy and Mercury.

The Sony Corporation has devel- oped and installed an interactive

VideoStore aboard Celebrity

Cruises' Galaxy and Mercury. The system is designed to allow users sophisticated levels of customized, easy and quick location of both audio and visuals in its database.

The system works with coded video compression and once a video is selected, the mainframe will translate the compressed sig- nal and broadcast it in under three seconds to anywhere throughout the ship. The system is tailor made for companies who need pro- gramming repeated at various times of the day, such as cruise ships, theme parks, and hotels.

The staterooms and public areas of the ships are also equipped with monitors and display units that allow the user to access art, the ship's gift shop, videos, games, pro- gram guides, safety instructions and shore excursion information.

The onboard movie theater can also access the VideoStore and play any of its movies.

VideoStore reportedly allows hundreds of channels to work either independently of each other, or be linked together. The system can also stagger viewings of the same program into different rooms or display monitors at different times, all from the same source.

The VideoStore offers an HTML interface as well as an intuitive

GUI.

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ABB Delivers Motors To

Germany's Largest-Built

Liners

ABB has delivered 1,400 motors to Celebrity Cruises in Miami for installation aboard its three

February, 1998 largest cruise ships: Mercury,

Galaxy; and Century.

All three of these cruise ships were built in Germany for

Celebrity by the Meyer Shipyard in Papenburg. The motors were designed from .25 to 160 kW of a rugged cast iron in order to meet

Celebrity's long expected service life for the three ships of around 30 years each.

The motors are expected to drive pumps, fans, water coolers, steer- ing gear and stabilizers.

All of the motors were certified by Lloyd's Register of Shipping.

ABB has also fitted newer vessels with their cast iron motors. M/V

Oriana, M/V Superstar Leo, WW

Superstar Virgo and three ships from the Fincantieri Shipyard in

Venice have all used the new ABB motors.

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