Satellite
Astra 1H 19°East 
DVB-S Radio Service 
ARD Bouquet 
WDR 
Funkhaus Europa 
Channel 1 = Stereo 
Channel 2 = 5.1 Dolby Digital (AC-3)
In order to capture the satellite signal, users need a satellite dish, a Dolby AC-3 decoder and a 5.1 amplifier/loudspeaker system.

Internet
The Internet ‘streaming’ makes use of an advanced Peer-to-Peer (P2P) distribution technology called Octoshape. The internet stream will be coded in the multichannel 5.1 format using the Advance Audio Coding (HE AAC) technology. 

Users at home will need a PC which is connected to a 5.1 amplifier/loudspeaker system via a S/PDIF connector or a suitable adapter (example: TERRATEC Sound System Aureon 5.1 USB MKII).

In order to decode the multichannel audio stream encoded in AAC, the user should download a WinAmp player which needs to be installed on their computer. To access the stream, users will also have to download an Octoshape plug-in.

In order to this, please go to the following address: http://octoshape.com/events/prixeuropa2006.asp

The quality of the Octoshape delivery may depend on the number of users: the more users, the better the system's performance. So please invite your colleagues and friends to participate and enjoy the concert.   

NOTE: This experiment uses a beta non-commercial version of AAC source encoder. Therefore, some signal interruptions during live webcast may not be excluded, even if the Octoshape P2P distribution system works perfectly well.