OpenTV and nCUBE Announce Integration Plans for End-to-End VOD Solution.

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SAN FRANCISCO & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002

nCUBE Corporation and OpenTV (Nasdaq:OPTV) and (Euronext Amsterdam:OPTV), the world's leading interactive television company, today announced a cooperative partnership to develop an end-to-end pre-integrated video-on-demand (VOD) solution for broadband service operators.

OpenTV and nCUBE have agreed to integrate nCUBE's n4 Streaming Media Appliance, nABLE Interactive Management Platform, and e-commerce on-demand application server with OpenTV's EN2 middleware platform. This VOD solution is being designed to enable broadband service operators to provide subscribers the ability to watch selected movies with real-time VCR-like features including pause, rewind and fast-forward.

"With more than 20 million set-top deployments, OpenTV is a clear leader in delivering both interactive television technology and content," said Michael Pohl, president of nCUBE. "We look forward to combining the extensive global market experience of both nCUBE and OpenTV to help reach customers worldwide. Our continuing efforts to provide operators efficient and high quality VOD solutions are greatly enhanced through partnerships such as this."

nCUBE's n4 Streaming Media Appliance enables broadband operators to provide subscribers a wide range of on-demand television and movie options, including VOD and network personal video recording (nPVR) at the lowest total cost of ownership. The company's hypercube interconnect server architecture offers the only approach that allows systems to scale from a single server to hundreds of servers without requiring content replication. The nABLE Interactive Management Platform manages all of the systems and operations that comprise the nCUBE VOD system. nABLE manages stream control, bandwidth allocation, asset management and content distribution.

OpenTV's industry leading middleware is commercially deployed by cable, satellite and terrestrial broadband operators worldwide, and on thin-client and advanced set-top boxes. The company's complete iTV solution works across a broad range of programming languages including HTML, XML, DOCSIS, MHP, Java and Macromedia Flash.

"We believe that the integration of OpenTV's middleware with nCUBE's n4 Streaming Media Appliance will give broadband service operators a new, more powerful platform to improve performance of defined VOD and nPVR solutions while at the same time providing the basis for more advanced applications," said James Ackerman, chief executive officer of OpenTV. "Networked, server-based streaming media applications such as VOD and nPVR are becoming increasingly popular, and a critical component of OpenTV's ability to provide those applications is its capacity to draw upon a roster of highly respected partners such as nCUBE."

About nCUBE

nCUBE (www.nCUBE.com) provides scalable streaming media solutions to all broadband networks. Broadband operators worldwide count on nCUBE to provide solutions for broadband video-on-demand, advertising insertion and IP streaming media.

The company's core product line, the n4 Streaming Media Appliance, can scale from 100 megabits per second to 128 gigabits per second of streaming media from a single system. nCUBE also provides the most scalable advertising insertion solutions on the market today, including a Digital Program Insertion (DPI) product -- the only Advertising Insertion platform in the world capable of scaling up to 40 analog and 40 digital channels from the same server. nCUBE systems are used by today's leading interactive television companies. nCUBE's distinguished customer and partner list includes: Alcatel, AT&T, Bertelsmann, Cisco Systems, Charter Communications, Gemstar-TV Guide, Kingston Communications, Liberate, Motorola, OpenTV, Scientific-Atlanta, RealNetworks, Telewest Communications and Time Warner Cable. nCUBE is a contributing member of numerous industry forums and standards bodies including the ISO/IEC MPEG committee, Digital Video Broadcasting, Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and Internet Engineering Task Force. The company is based in Foster City, Calif., with sales and customer support offices in Colorado, Oregon, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and China.

About OpenTV

OpenTV is the world's leading interactive television company. It provides a broad range of interactive TV solutions including operating middleware, content applications, content creation tools, professional support services, and strategic consulting. OpenTV's software can operate on all digital platforms, from thin to thick set top boxes, including PVR systems, and supports a number of standards including HTML, DOCSIS, MHP and Java.

OpenTV's middleware is deployed in more than 20 million digital set-top boxes worldwide and has been selected by 50 digital cable, satellite and terrestrial communications networks in more than 50 countries. 36 digital set-top box manufacturers have licensed OpenTV's software, and more than 1,300 content developers have joined its Partner Program. Customers include BSkyB in the United Kingdom (NYSE: BSY); TPS and Noos in France (Paris: LYOE.PA); NTL Cable in Switzerland and France (NYSE: NLI; NASDAQ Europe: NTLI); Via Digital in Spain (NYSE: TEF); DIRECTV(TM) Latin America LLC (NYSE: GMH); Shanghai Cable in China; Austar in Australia; and EchoStar's DISH Network (Nasdaq: DISH) and USA Media in the U.S.

The company's wholly owned subsidiary, Static2358, is the industry's leading interactive applications provider. It owns and operates the world's most successful iTV entertainment and games channel, PlayJam.

OpenTV is based in Mountain View, Calif. For more information please visit 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 the VOD solution to be developed by OpenTV and nCube and OpenTV's ability to provide other streaming media applications. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, whether demand for streaming media applications will continue, the rate at which the market for viewer control applications will expand, the timely identification and development of new streaming media applications, customer acceptance of those applications and the pricing thereof, the impact of competitive applications and the pricing of those applications, the impact of technological constraints and changes in technology, the impact of governmental regulation, 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 April 18, 2001. OpenTV undertakes no obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

OpenTV and the OpenTV logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of OpenTV, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Static2358, Static and PlayJam are trademarks of Static2358. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.