OpenTV Signs Japan ITV Deal. (Broadband Week).(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, December, 2001

ANAHEIM, CALIF. - OpenTV Corp. has inked a deal with Jupiter Telecommunications Co. Ltd. to jointly develop a two-way digital interactive-TV service. Terms of the pact, which was announced at the Western Show here last week, were not disclosed.

Jupiter is Japan's largest MSO, with 21 cable systems serving more than 1 million homes. It's jointly owned by Liberty Media Corp. and Microsoft Corp.; the latter is represented on its board.

Under the deal, OpenTV and Jupiter will develop such advanced interactive-TV services as on-demand news, weather, online shopping, games, movies and other programming for Jupiter's network.

OpenTV will provide the operating middleware, interactive applications and support services.

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