EchoStar Demonstrates OpenTV's Interactive Services for Dish Network; EchoStar To Introduce New Digital Set-Top Box With OpenTV Operating System Software.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 1999-- EchoStar Communications Corp. (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 : DISH, DISHP) will demonstrate its new interactive TV services using OpenTV(R) software at the annual Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association expo in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . These new interactive services are planned to provide DISH Network See DBS. satellite television customers later this year with numerous opportunities to access e-commerce, music information, customer care assistance, and other interactive services. EchoStar's new Model 3800 and current Model 4700 series satellite receivers will deliver interactivity to DISH Network customers this winter as quickly and easily as changing channels. This will represent the first deployment of OpenTV services to the entire U.S. market. EchoStar will license and deploy OpenTV's technology and software with EchoStar's Model 3800 and 4700 series satellite receivers, which will be available via satellite download to consumers this winter. Both interactive TV systems will qualify for DISH Network One-Rate Plans. OpenTV is the leader in interactive television with more than 3 million homes currently using its platform worldwide. "By being the first in the U.S. to offer OpenTV interactive television, we're offering our customers more of what they want from their television experience," said Mark Jackson Mark Jackson may refer to:
above all, most especially , DISH Network interactive TV services places us steps ahead of our competitors." "EchoStar's DISH Network is the ideal medium for the first U.S. deployment of truly interactive services for people who enjoy watching television," said Jan Steenkamp, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of OpenTV. "The key to our success is an open and flexible software design, which uniquely positions us to bring expanded digital interactive services to the entire U.S. television market." During the first year of deployment, DISH Network intends to offer its customers a variety of enhanced television Enhanced Television (ETV) is a collection of specifications developed under the OpenCable project of CableLabs (Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.) that define an ETV Application consisting of resources (files) adhering to the Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) content services, such as an interactive electronic program guide, e-mail and Internet access See how to access the Internet. for television, weather forecasts on demand and a variety of customer care and e-commerce services, including local weather and music merchandising, with more to be added in the future. EchoStar Communications Corp., includes three interrelated in·ter·re·late tr. & intr.v. in·ter·re·lat·ed, in·ter·re·lat·ing, in·ter·re·lates To place in or come into mutual relationship. in business units:
-- DISH Network(TM) is EchoStar's state-of-the-art DBS system that
offers customers over 300 channels of digital video and
CD-quality audio programming, fully MPEG-2/DVB compliant hardware
and installation.
-- EchoStar Technologies Corporation designs, manufactures and
distributes DBS set-top boxes, antennas and other digital
equipment for the DISH Network and various international
customers that include ExpressVu Canada and Telefonica's Via
Digital system in Spain. ETC also provides uplink center design,
construction oversight and project integration services for
customers internationally. ETC also oversees EchoStar Data
Networks Corporation in Atlanta, a leading supplier of
MediaStream(R) technology for distributing Internet content over
satellite networks.
-- Satellite Services provides the delivery of video, audio and data
services to business television customers and other satellite
users. These services include satellite uplink, satellite
transponder space usage, and other services. Satellite Services
also administers SKY VISTA, a direct broadcast satellite service
offering over 27 channels of popular digital satellite television
programming to viewers in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the
U.S. territories in the Caribbean.
DISH Network currently serves approximately 2.6 million customers. DISH Network is a trademark of EchoStar Communications Corporation EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) is the parent company of DISH Network and the maintainer of the satellite fleet that provides the signal that DISH Network markets. . DISH Network is located on the Internet at: www.dishnetwork.com. About OpenTV OpenTV is a worldwide leader in interactive television software for the digital receiver, providing a complete end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for the development and delivery of interactive services via digital satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcast. More than 3 million digital receivers have been shipped worldwide with the OpenTV operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. software. To date, OpenTV software solutions have been deployed by 12 television networks worldwide including British Sky Broadcasting British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB — formerly two companies, Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels. (BSkyB) in the United Kingdom and TPS (1) (Transactions Per Second) The number of transactions processed within one second. TPS is a better rating for the performance of hardware and software than the common MHz and GHz rating of the computer. in France. EchoStar's DISH Network is scheduled to launch their interactive services in the U.S. utilizing OpenTV software later this year. The OpenTV operating system software is licensed to more than 20 digital receiver manufacturers and OpenTV's authoring tools are licensed to more than 100 independent developers, content and service providers. OpenTV is a member of the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. ) project and a licensee of Personal Java(TM) from Sun Microsystems. Worldwide headquarters for OpenTV is located in Mountain View, Calif., with European operations based in Paris, France. Information on OpenTV is available at www.opentv.com. OpenTV is a registered trademark of OpenTV, Inc. All rights reserved. Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. EchoStar Communications Corp., includes three interrelated business units: -- DISH Network(TM) is EchoStar's state-of-the-art DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) A one-way TV broadcast service from a communications satellite to a small round or oval dish antenna no larger than 20" in diameter. system that offers customers over 300 channels of digital video and CD-quality audio programming, fully MPEG-2/DVB compliant hardware and installation. -- EchoStar Technologies Corporation designs, manufactures and distributes DBS set-top boxes, antennas and other digital equipment for the DISH Network and various international customers that include ExpressVu Canada and Telefonica's Via Digital system in Spain. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). also provides uplink center design, construction oversight and project integration services for customers internationally. ETC also oversees EchoStar Data Networks Corporation in Atlanta, a leading supplier of MediaStream(R) technology for distributing Internet content over satellite networks. -- Satellite Services provides the delivery of video, audio and data services to business television customers and other satellite users. These services include satellite uplink, satellite transponder A receiver/transmitter on a communications satellite. It receives a microwave signal from earth (uplink), amplifies it and retransmits it back to earth at a different frequency (downlink). A satellite has several transponders. space usage, and other services. Satellite Services also administers SKY VISTA, a direct broadcast satellite service offering over 27 channels of popular digital satellite television programming to viewers in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories in the Caribbean. DISH Network currently serves approximately 2.6 million customers. DISH Network is a trademark of EchoStar Communications Corporation. DISH Network is located on the Internet at: www.dishnetwork.com |
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