Mike ...real world rollouts...how about OPENTV with 11 million settop boxes in 50 countries..
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OPENTV DELIVERS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMING THE INTERNET INTO RICH INTERACTIVE TELEVISION
OpenTV Publisher Launches With BSkyB's New Interactive Television Offering
Mountain View, CA -- December 12, 2000 -- OpenTV (NASDAQ and AEX: OPTV), the world's leading interactive television and media solutions company, announces the launch of OpenTV Publisher, an OpenTV technology which facilitates rapid delivery of Internet content to cable and satellite television viewers worldwide. OpenTV Publisher represents another easy to deploy and superior OpenTV technology solution for cable and satellite operators implementing interactive television. OpenTV Publisher debuted with the recent launch of BSkyB's digital Sky Text offering to its four million digital homes.
British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's leading digital broadcaster, this week announced that it was extending its array of television-based e-commerce and online applications with the launch of digital text featuring on-screen interactive betting. BSkyB is authoring a dedicated service to provide digital text which, in comparison to analogue text, is media rich, has faster navigation and is distributed via digital transmission. BSkyB passes the content in XML through the OpenTV Publisher platform, which translates the content for television.
The launch of OpenTV Publisher supports OpenTV's client server strategy of providing cutting edge technology that takes popular Internet content and functionality, which is then easily optimized for a superior presentation on television. It is a TV-centric look and feel, not just Web pages on a television screen.
This server-based solution becomes a gateway allowing content developers to take advantage of the standards-based infrastructure widely available on the Internet, allowing the re-purposing of this content for digital televisions systems around the world.
Critical to operators, OpenTV Publisher embraces OpenTV's strategy of providing highly-scalable solutions that enable large subscriber bases to be reached with minimal infrastructure costs. OpenTV solutions are proven, easy to deploy and provide the ability to deliver superior content.
"OpenTV Publisher is another offering which reinforces OpenTV's broadband strategy as the company enables cable and satellite operators to make Web-based content available to their consumers," said James Ackerman, OpenTV President and Chief Operating Officer. "We are committed to building technology that enables content and creative communities to deliver their assets to the broadest possible audience, in the easiest possible way."
OpenTV also offers multichannel operators a variety of Content on Demand™ services, which are completed applications that can be launched with an operator's unique branding. These OpenTV Publisher-based services developed by OpenTV Interactive Studios include News, Weather, Sports, Finance, Entertainment, Customer Care and Shopping.
About OpenTV
OpenTV is the world's leading interactive television and media solutions company. OpenTV's software platform provides a comprehensive solution for the development and delivery of digital interactive services by multichannel service operators to television viewers. The OpenTV solution includes its operating middleware, applications, software tools, and strategic consulting services expertise.
OpenTV software has been shipped with or installed in more than 11 million digital set-top boxes worldwide and has been selected by 37 digital cable, satellite and terrestrial communications networks in over 50 countries, including BSkyB in the United Kingdom; TPS and Noos in France; PrimaCom in Germany; Via Digital in Spain; DLA, the exclusive provider of DIRECTV™ in Latin America; and EchoStar's DISH Network in the U.S.
In addition, 31 digital set-top box manufacturers have licensed OpenTV's software, and OpenTV's authoring tools are licensed to more than 600 independent developers and content service providers.
Worldwide headquarters for OpenTV is located in Mountain View, Calif. Information on OpenTV is available at www.opentv.com.
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This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated herein, including statements regarding anticipated deployment of set-top boxes, the market for interactive television and, revenues generated from interactive television. Actual results can differ materially. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to the rate at which interactive television market will continue to expand, the timely identification and development of new products and services, customer acceptance of those products and services and the pricing thereof, the impact of competitive products and services and the pricing of those products and services, whether a market will exist for OpenTV Publisher, whether services provided via OpenTV Publisher can effectively be launched, and other risk factors detailed in the Registration Statements on Forms F-1 and F-4, the Annual Report on Form 20-F and other documents filed from time to time by OpenTV Corp. with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
© 2000 OpenTV, Inc. All rights reserved. OpenTV, OpenAuthor, OpenTV Runtime, OpenStreamer and the OpenTV logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of OpenTV, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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For further information, please contact:
SallyAnn Reiss
OpenTV
Tel: +1 650 429 5566
E-mail: sareiss@opentv.com
Jackie Zide
Manning Selvage & Lee
Tel: +1 323 866 6008
E-mail: jzide@mslpr.com
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