OpenTV Wins "Best Graphic & Design" at the 2009 AFDESI Awards.Company Receives Prestigious Award for OpenTV Core nX[TM], its Next Generation User Interface; OpenTV Customer Dishtv Receives Special Recognition for Interactive Services SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- OpenTV 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 :OPTV), the leading software and technology provider of advanced digital television solutions, announced today that its next generation advanced user interface OpenTV Core nX[TM] won the award for "Best Graphic & Design" at the 7th annual AFDESI Awards Ceremony, held last week at MIPCOM in Cannes, France. In addition, Dishtv, India's leading direct-to-home operator and OpenTV customer, won the "New Entrant" award for its Dish ACTIVE portal, which is powered by OpenTV middleware. The awards ceremony was hosted by the Association for the Development of Enhanced TV Enhanced TV (ETV) is one example of interactive TV. It is used in particular in reference to Two-Screen Solutions TV + PC services. Generally users of these ETV services have their TV and computer in the same room, and navigate their web browser to a particular program-specific Web Services and Interactivity which recognizes advancements in technology and design in the advanced television space. "We are very pleased to have won this award for Core nX which recognizes the importance of the next generation user interface for pay-TV operators worldwide. In a world where Web-TV convergence is a reality, operators need to offer a simple and intuitive way for subscribers to access and interact with ever-growing sources of content," said Ben Bennett Ben Bennett (born May 5, 1963 in Sunnyvale, CA) is the head coach of the arenafootball2 (af2) Manchester Wolves. He has been involved in professional football as a player and coach since 1984. , OpenTV's Chief Executive Officer. "Television is also about entertainment and a predominantly "lean back Verb 1. lean back - move the upper body backwards and down recline lean, tilt, angle, slant, tip - to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" fall back - fall backwards and down " experience, one which our design team has embraced in the creation of Core nX." OpenTV Core nX[TM] is a next generation, unified media interface that allows users to quickly and easily find content. The innovative, intuitive design also enables users to seamlessly access content across multiple sources, including broadcast, on-demand, PVR See DVR. , over-the-top content, and social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network . Dishtv's Dish ACTIVE portal provides Dishtv subscribers with several value-added interactive services including news, sports, jobs, banking and travel. The portal was built by Dishtv using the user-friendly features of OpenTV's middleware solution. About OpenTV OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of advanced digital television solutions dedicated to creating and delivering compelling viewing experiences to consumers of digital content worldwide. The company's software has been integrated in more than 133 million devices around the world and enables advanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal video recording, interactive and addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be advertising and a variety of enhanced television applications. For more information, please visit www.opentv.com. |
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