OpenTV Selected by Numericable, France's Largest Cable Operator, for Advanced Digital Television Services

OpenTV Selected by Numericable, France's Largest Cable Operator, for Advanced Digital Television Services

Customer Services to Include High Definition, Video on Demand, and PVR

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OpenTV Corp. (Nasdaq GM: OPTV), a leading provider of enabling technologies for advanced television and cross-platform interactive services, today announced that YPSO / Numericable, the leading cable broadband operator in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, has selected OpenTV as a key technology partner for the roll-out of its advanced digital television services.

Enabled by OpenTV's latest generation of middleware, OpenTV HTML Browser(TM), OpenTV PVR2(TM), and OpenTV Core2(TM), YPSO / Numericable will be able to select the best STB manufacturers and provide its subscribers interactive TV, PVR, video on demand (VOD), and high definition services. These services will be integrated with the Kudelski Group (SWX Swiss Exchange: KUD) solution set also selected by YPSO / Numericable, which includes solutions from Nagravision, Quative, and Lysis.

Pascal Dormal, Director of Business Development, Altice Group said, "YPSO and Altice have selected OpenTV solutions with integrated PVR, HD, and HTML because it is the most advanced middleware platform in the market. OpenTV provides unmatched portability and a proven track record in supporting the commercial deployment of advanced digital television services such as high definition, personal video recording, and video on demand."

Ben Bennett, OpenTV's Senior Vice President and Managing Director for OpenTV EMEA, said, "OpenTV is extremely proud to be selected as a strategic partner of YPSO / Numericable. This opportunity validates OpenTV's continued leadership position in deployment of its advanced digital television solution for the European broadband industry and we look forward to continuing our long term leadership presence in the French digital television arena."

About OpenTV

OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of solutions for the delivery of digital and interactive television. The company's software has been integrated in over 73 million digital set-top boxes around the world. The software enables enhanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal video recording, enhanced television, interactive shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and gaming and a variety of consumer care and communication applications. For more information, please visit www.opentv.com.

About YPSO / Numericable YPSO / Numericable offers video, digital and analog, data and voice to 9.5 million homes in France. YPSO / Numericable has been constituted through the acquisition of Est Videocommunication, France Telecom Cable, TDF Cable, NC Numericable, UPC France and Noos, Coditel Brabant and Coditel Luxembourg. For more information, please visit www.numericable.fr.

About the Kudelski Group

The Kudelski Group , is a world leader in digital security. Its technologies are used in a wide range of applications requiring access control and rights management, whether for securing transfer of information (digital television, broadband Internet, video-on-demand, interactive applications, etc.) or to control and manage access of people or vehicles to sites and events. The Kudelski Group is headquartered in Cheseaux-sur- Lausanne, Switzerland. For more information, please visit www.nagra.com.

FCMN Contact: lisa.rogers@mslpr.com

Source: OpenTV Corp.

CONTACT: Barbara Cassidy of OpenTV, +1-415-962-5111, or
bcassidy@opentv.com; or Justin Hayward of Manning Selvage & Lee,
+44 (0) 20 7878 32919, or justin.hayward@mslpr.co.uk

Web site: http://www.opentv.com/

Web site: http://www.numericable.fr/

Web site: http://www.nagra.com/

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