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Press ReleaseNASCAR and POWERPUFF GIRLS Go Interactive At the Western Show Through Interactivity Powered by OpenTVOpenTV To Demonstrate Interactive Television Features For Popular Television Content and Highlight Numerous Strategic AlliancesMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Nov. 15, 2000) - OpenTV (NASDAQ & AEX:OPTV), the world's leading interactive television and media solutions company, will showcase eye-popping interactivity for some of today's hottest television content including NASCAR(TM), PowerPuff Girls(TM) and Shop At Home at this year's Western Show. OpenTV's Studios, OpenTV's in-house interactive television studio wrote the ITV programs, ensuring that they blend seamlessly with OpenTV's digital ITV software platform, are easy to deploy and heighten the quality of the television viewing experience. OpenTV will highlight a wide range of premier interactive television content at this year's Western Show, including: -- Turner Sports -- Through an interactive demonstration, OpenTV takes Turner Sports' coverage of NASCAR(TM), auto-racing's most popular league, to a whole new level through interactivity that allows the viewer to select multiple in-car cameras, monitor real-time onboard telemetry information including the vehicle speed (mph) and engine speed (rpm), as well as accessing driver biographies and statistics for season and career. -- PowerPuff Girls(TM) -- Powered by OpenTV, PowerPuff Girls(TM) fans jump into the world of Buttercup, Blossom or Bubbles and gain immediate access to character background information and details on special powers, all synchronized with the television broadcast. -- Shop At Home -- Through interactivity enabled by OpenTV, Shop At Home viewers are expected to enjoy a heightened shopping experience, with instant access to additional information on currently offered products. OpenTV and Shop At Home seek to capitalize on t-commerce technology by allowing viewers to make immediate purchases. -- OpenTV Weather -- OpenTV's on-demand interactive weather service provides viewers with accurate and up-to-the-minute local and national weather, all provided by AccuWeather. Viewers can access five-day forecasts, high and low temperatures, national and regional satellite and radar images and can store local and/or favorite cities for future easy access. -- OpenTV News -- News from around the world is dynamically delivered through OpenTV's interactive news service. Viewers use their television remote to select real-time news headlines from a variety of topics including international news, national news, sports, finance and entertainment. All of these interactive television features and services capitalize on OpenTV's worldwide, proven interactive television (ITV) expertise. In fact, OpenTV recently cemented the company's position as the most widely deployed interactive television solution through this week's previous announcement of more than 11 million OpenTV-enabled set-top boxes deployed worldwide -- more than all of its competitors combined. "We have launched interactive television services worldwide with a tremendous viewer response. OpenTV has demonstrated that interactive television directly promotes increased customer loyalty, reduces churn and fosters immediate revenue generation for cable television operators," said James Ackerman, president and COO, OpenTV. Ackerman continued, "Now is the time for the U.S. cable industry to truly see the power of interactive television, and the Western Show is the place for OpenTV to showcase its vast portfolio of the most compelling interactive television content that the industry has to offer." OpenTV maintains strong strategic alliances with a collection of the industry's leading interactive television companies including Motorola, DIVA, ACTV, Commerce.TV, Worldgate, Sea Change, Pace Micro Technology, Liberty LiveWire, ICTV, RespondTV and MagNetPoint all of whom will take prominent positions in the OpenTV Western Show booth. These strategic partnerships empower OpenTV to deliver extensible solutions, choice and convenience to cable operators. The Western Show, beginning November 28 and running through December 1, 2000 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is one of the largest telecommunication conventions in the world. OpenTV will be located at booth #3301 in the West Hall. About OpenTV OpenTV is the world's leading interactive television and media solutions company. OpenTV builds a complete software and infrastructure platform that enables digital interactive television and brings on-demand content to other digital communications devices. OpenTV solutions are crafted to meet the needs of all digital communications networks and include operating middleware, content applications, content creation tools, professional services expertise and strategic consulting. OpenTV middleware has been shipped with or installed in more than ten million digital set-top boxes worldwide and has been selected by 35 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; Stream in Italy; DIRECTV(TM) Latin America LLC; and EchoStar's DISH Network in the U.S. In addition, more than 31 digital set-top box manufacturers have licensed OpenTV's middleware, 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. 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 revenue, net loss, earnings per share, 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 interactive television industry-wide revenues will match the revenue estimates provided by industry analysts, 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. Note to Editors: (c)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. All OpenTV products and services may not be available in all geographic areas. CONTACT: OpenTV Mike Anderegg, 650/429-5498 mandereg@opentv.com |
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