OpenTV Announces More Than 23.5 Million Set-Top Box Deployments Worldwide; 2.8 Million OpenTV-Enabled Set-Top Boxes Deployed in the Fourth Quarter of 2001

Business Wire, Feb 13, 2002

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2002

Fifth Consecutive Quarter In Excess of Two Million Deployments

OpenTV (Nasdaq:OPTV) (Euronext Amsterdam:OPTV), the world's leading interactive television company, today announced that based on reports received to date its middleware was installed in 2.8 million set-top boxes (STBs) during the fourth quarter of 2001, bringing its industry-leading cumulative deployments to more than 23.5 million as of December 31, 2001.

"With our fifth consecutive quarter in excess of two million deployments, OpenTV continues to deploy more iTV core platform technology per quarter than many of our competitors have deployed in their entire history," said OpenTV Chief Executive Officer James Ackerman. "We believe that our installed base of more than 23.5 million set-top boxes worldwide -- including our U.S. market-leading base of more than four million deployments -- provides a significant opportunity to leverage our iTV content and applications solutions to develop both new and recurring revenue streams for the company."

The 23.5 million cumulative STBs deployed as of December 31, 2001 is a 70 percent increase from 13.9 million STBs deployed as of December 31, 2000. Major network operator contributors to fourth quarter deployments included EchoStar in the United States, BskyB in the United Kingdom, Sky New Zealand, and DIRECTV Latin America.

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 operates 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 23.5 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; TPS and Noos in France; ntl Cable in Switzerland and France; Via Digital in Spain; DIRECTV Latin America LLC; Shanghai Cable in China; Austar in Australia; and EchoStar's DISH Network 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, California. 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 opportunity for OpenTV to develop new and recurring revenue streams by leveraging its iTV content and applications solutions. Actual results can differ materially. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from such forward-looking statements, or to which OpenTV's business is otherwise subject, include, but are not limited to, whether current demand for interactive television will continue, the rate at which the interactive television market will expand or contract, whether global economic conditions will affect the business and operational decisions of OpenTV's customers, suppliers and other business partners in a manner adverse to OpenTV, the timely identification and development of new products, applications and services, customer acceptance of those products, applications and services and the pricing thereof, the impact of competitive products, applications and services and the pricing of those products, applications and services, the level of content and applications deployed by OpenTV's network operator customers and other factors that could affect the growth of OpenTV's recurring revenues, the impact of technological constraints and changes in technology, 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.

(c) 2002 OpenTV, Inc. All rights reserved. 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.

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