AUNA TLC and OpenTV Sign Agreement to Use OpenTV's Technology to Launch New Interactive TV Services on AUNA TLC's Digital Television Platform.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MADRID, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2003 OpenTV (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on and Euronext Amsterdam: OPTV), one of the world's leading interactive television companies, and AUNA AUNA Auditory Neuropathy, Autosomal Dominant 1 TLC TLC total lung capacity; thin-layer chromatography. TLC abbr. 1. thin-layer chromatography 2. , a Spanish telecommunications operator offering integrated and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. services of TV, telephony and Internet in Spain, today announced that OpenTV's interactive middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a and OpenTV Streamer products are being incorporated into the AUNA TLC service. These integration efforts allow AUNA TLC and its content suppliers to develop a comprehensive suite of interactive services for the OpenTV platform. AUNA TLC owns a broadband network in Spain that reaches over 2.5 million homes and businesses. AUNA TLC has well over 1.6 million customers, one third of them are cable television customers making AUNA TLC the largest cable operator in Spain serving both Barcelona, Madrid, and Seville among others. The new services being developed by AUNA TLC and powered by OpenTV technology include: -- E-mail, chat and SMS services, allowing viewers to communicate through their TV. -- Games services, so that viewers can use their TV as a games console. -- Enhanced TV services that can allow viewers to select different video streams, with, for example, different camera angles for sporting events. -- Pay-Per-View services which can be impulse purchased through the remote control. It is expected that OpenTV technology will be deployed on all of AUNA TLC customers' digital set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. . AUNA TLC customers with existing digital set-top boxes will be invited to update their set-top box configuration to receive OpenTV's technology, enabling the customers to enjoy AUNA TLC's new interactive services. Jose Manuel Arnaiz, Marketing Director of AUNA TLC said, "By using OpenTV's technology, we expect to improve our high-quality television services offering. OpenTV's technology is very flexible, and can run on both simple low-end as well as high-performance set-top boxes." OpenTV Chief Executive Officer James Ackerman said, "We are delighted to collaborate with AUNA TLC to help them launch the first nationwide interactive platform on Spanish cable television. Around the world, our experience has shown that the combination of compelling interactive television content and reliable and dependable technology from OpenTV is capable of delivering both new revenue streams and lower churn churn: see butter. to our operator clients." About OpenTV One of the world's leading interactive television companies, OpenTV powers more than 27 million set-top boxes worldwide. The company provides a comprehensive suite of iTV solutions including operating middleware, web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. software, interactive applications, content creation tools, professional support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , and strategic consulting. OpenTV is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. , with regional offices throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe and Asia/Pacific. For more information, please visit www.opentv.com. About AUNA TLC AUNA TLC is a new telecom operator in Spain. AUNA TLC is the resulting entity of the merge between Aunacable and Retevision, completed by Grupo Auna in 2002. AUNA TLC is a nationwide operator, offering telecommunication services all over in Spain. AUNA TLC has over 1.6 million clients, one third of them are cable clients. 2002 income was 898 million euros. AUNA TLC offers integrated broadband Internet See broadband. , television and telephony services for both the residential and business markets. With an investment of over 4 billion euros, AUNA TLC is the new telecommunications operator with the highest investment in development and marketing of their services and network, reaching over 2.6 million homes and enterprises in Spain. For more information: www.auna.es / www.retevision.es/ www.aunacable.es This news release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated herein, including statements regarding the availability of OpenTV technology to AUNA TLC customers. Actual results can differ materially. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, the risk that AUNA TLC's business plans with respect to OpenTV technology will change, impact of competitive products and services and the pricing of those products and services, the impact of technological constraints and changes in technology, and other risk factors detailed in the documents filed from time to time by OpenTV Corp. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those risk factors detailed in Item 3.D of OpenTV Corp.'s Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26, 2002. OpenTV undertakes no obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. |
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