OpenTV Enables Interactive Services on Indian DTH Service

SAN FRANCISCO/MUMBAI, March 13: OpenTV has integrated its
Core2 software into more than 1.4 million DishTV set-top boxes in India,
allowing the Essel Group-owned DTH platform to roll out a range of interactive
services.

DishTV has launched an advanced programming guide,
interactive cricket, multi-angle interactive news, and a suite of games from
OpenTV's PlayJam service. The integration and deployment of the software and
services took less than four months, OpenTV said.

The next phase of deployment will introduce further
applications as well as a PVR built around OpenTV's PVR2 software.

Essel Group expects to deploy similar OpenTV-enabled
services to a portion of its Siticable customer base, India's largest at
approximately 6.5 million subscribers.

Mike Ivanchenko, the SVP and MD for the Asia Pacific at
OpenTV, commented: “The Indian market is a huge opportunity for OpenTV, and
being able to serve a vast and growing number of subscribers quickly and
without technical problems is imperative in order to be successful. With
analysts projecting a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent for the Indian
pay-TV market, we expect to see 70 million digital subscriber households by the
year 2010, and OpenTV is well-positioned to be able to meet their needs for
advanced digital television services."