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1. [verwijderd] 4 januari 2008 13:44

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   Beste fred*,
   
   Meerdere forumleden hebben opgemerkt dat ze het laatste bericht eerst willen lezen en we kijken nog of deze functionaliteit op termijn aangeboden kan worden. Het is ons ook bekend dat een aantal guru's ook de automatische refresh waardeert.
   
   Ik begrijp niet helemaal wat u bedoelt met 'vast header'. Kunt u enige toelichting geven?
   
   Alvast bedankt voor de moeite.
   
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2. €d_Modus Vivendi 4 januari 2008 13:53

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   een vaste header zoals dat op het oude EB was.
   Een vaste header zoals nu bv op pagina 1 van deze discussie staat, waarbij grafieken etc zichtbaar zijn.
3. [verwijderd] 4 januari 2008 14:00

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   Beste fred,
   
   Het is niet meer mogelijk om grafieken direct in het bericht te plaatsen. Om vervuiling tegen te gaan en discussies overzichtelijk te houden, hebben we ervoor gekozen om uitsluitend de mogelijkheid te bieden om grafieken/plaatjes in een bijlage op te nemen. De afbeelding kan vervolgens via een paperclip worden aangeklikt.
   
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4. €d_Modus Vivendi 4 januari 2008 14:05

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   tja, overzichtelijk....
5. [verwijderd] 4 januari 2008 15:01

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   What Does Eveillard Know About Comcast That Drop Doesn't Show?
   
   By Ari Levy and Gillian Wee
   
   Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Comcast Corp.'s 35 percent decline in 2007 makes the stock look cheap to Jean-Marie Eveillard, manager of the $22 billion First Eagle Global Fund.
   
   The biggest U.S. cable network is worth $30 a share, says Eveillard, who buys stocks he deems inexpensive relative to potential earnings and sales growth. That's 73 percent higher than yesterday's closing price of $17.34 in Nasdaq trading.
   
   Eveillard disputes the view of Marsico Capital Management and Janus Capital Management, who invest in companies they expect to grow faster than their peers. They dumped Philadelphia-based Comcast in the second half of 2007 amid concerns that new federal restrictions and competition from phone companies will hamper revenue gains. During the same period, investors with styles similar to First Eagle, including Wellington Management Co. and Dodge & Cox, were jumping in, according to regulatory filings.
   
   Comcast ``is not going to disappear,'' said Eveillard, whose First Eagle has returned 15 percent annually in the past decade, third out of 620 global funds that invest in both stocks and bonds, according to Morningstar Inc.
   
   ``There's a major change in ownership to value investors,'' said Eveillard, 67. His New York-based firm owns $240 million in Comcast shares. ``If you're patient and willing to wait several years, it's a good time.''
   
   Comcast has dropped by more than 25 percent in Nasdaq Stock Market trading since mid-October as subscriber growth missed estimates and home sales slumped. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has enacted rules that may limit Comcast's growth.
   
   Estimates Reduced
   
   Analysts cut 2008 sales estimates by an average $200 million from mid-November to mid-December, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Comcast fell 36 cents, or 2 percent, yesterday and was among the five worst-performing stocks in the Standard & Poor's 100 Index of large U.S. companies last year.
   
   ``We pay no attention to what happens in the short term,'' Eveillard said in an interview at his New York office last month. ``You have to accept that every now and then you have to suffer.''
   
   Chief Executive Officer Brian Roberts may make the case for Comcast to investors, analysts and customers at the Consumer Electronics Show that starts Jan. 6 in Las Vegas.
   
   Roberts, in his first keynote at the world's largest consumer technology conference, may show off a new generation of set-top boxes and programming including Web content from Google Inc.'s YouTube, said Kurt Scherf, an analyst at Dallas-based researcher Parks Associates.
   
   Providing more products and content to customers could help Comcast increase sales as the FCC's Martin moves to restrict the company's expansion. Comcast has made 14 acquisitions in the past five years, including assets of the bankrupt Adelphia Communications Corp. in July 2006 that gave the company an additional 1.7 million subscribers.
   
   `State of the Union'
   
   AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are also targeting Comcast's pay-TV subscribers.
   
   ``It is a chance for Brian Roberts to really give a state of the union,'' said Scherf. Making Internet content accessible on a TV screen ``really serves to differentiate a service provider from its competitors.''
   
   A shift in the way investors perceive Comcast attracted Eveillard as well as San Francisco-based Dodge & Cox and Wellington Management in Boston.
   
   The stock shed the growth attributes it had a year ago and is ``100 percent value,'' said Standard & Poor's Corp. Managing Director David Blitzer.
   
   Looking `Favorable'
   
   ``Longer-term prospects in relation to current valuations look favorable,'' Dodge & Cox, Comcast's biggest shareholder, said in the third-quarter report for its $65.7 billion Stock Fund. Comcast's price-earnings ratio of 26 is the lowest since 1999.
   
   Dodge & Cox spokesman Steve Gorski and Wellington's Lisa Finkel said their firms don't comment on individual holdings. Comcast spokesman John Demming said the company doesn't comment on its stock price.
   
   AT&T in San Antonio and New York-based Verizon, the biggest U.S. phone carriers, won't succeed in luring cable-TV customers from Comcast, said Pat Becker Jr., who controls 1.2 million shares at Becker Capital Management Inc. in Portland, Oregon.
   
   ``It's just really hard to displace them when you think about somebody coming and ripping everything out and putting in a new service,'' Becker said. ``Things going right for these guys isn't as much priced in'' to Comcast's stock.
   
   AT&T forecasts a 10-fold increase this year from 126,000 TV subscribers at the end of the third quarter. Verizon is spending $22.9 billion building a pay-TV business.
   
   `Got to Execute'
   
   ``We have the best platform in the nation,'' Michael Angelakis, Comcast's co-chief financial officer, said at a Dec. 5 investor conference in New York. ``We've got to execute better.''
   
   As Roberts delivers his Jan. 8 keynote at the Venetian hotel, Martin will be gearing up for his CES speech at the Las Vegas Hilton. In November, Martin delayed a drive to expand the FCC's authority over cable companies until he can obtain more data. His separate proposal to cap cable ownership at 30 percent of the market won FCC approval on Dec. 18. Comcast says it has 27 percent.
   
   ``If you tried to get them in the same room, their heads might explode,'' Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett in New York, who rates Comcast ``outperform,'' said of Martin and Roberts. Martin ``has reached for every conceivable pro- regulatory, anti-cable measure he can find.''
   
   Comcast tumbled after second-quarter earnings in July because of the prospect of increased spending. It dropped three months later after adding fewer phone and Internet subscribers than analysts estimated. In April, Roberts had said the business was ``on fire.''
   
   ``Credibility has been crushed here,'' said Jordan Posner, who helps manage $1.8 billion including more than 2 million Comcast shares at Matrix Asset Advisors Inc. in New York. He said the shares are worth more than $25 because ``the company has tremendous financial strength and firepower.''
   
   To contact the reporter on this story: Ari Levy in New York at alevy5@bloomberg.net
   
   Last Updated: January 4, 2008 00:09 EST
6. €d_Modus Vivendi 5 januari 2008 09:26

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   CES 2008 7-10 jan Las Vegas
   
   DH22: Enabling Multiplatform Delivery of Content: Broadband, DTV, IPTV and Mobile— Implications of Expanded Bandwidth and Nearly Unlimited Storage
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   Abstract Digital and triple play upgrades are installed in nearly 60 million homes, with millions more to come. Is the industry prepared for the challenges of serving this digital consumer universe? The companies and players at the heart of the server-to-set-top transformation discuss expanding demands for bandwidth, storage and 24/7 video.
   
   Product Markets Associated with this Session: Emerging Technology,Home Networking,Home Theater and Video
   
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   IBM
   
7. €d_Modus Vivendi 7 januari 2008 20:47

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   Comcast: Cable to standardize technology
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   Facing pressure from regulators, the cable TV industry plans to make good on a promise to standardize its technology and open the door to televisions and other gadgets that don't need cable boxes to receive video-on-demand programs and other interactive services.
   
   An industry initiative, to be renamed "tru2way" after a decade in the works, is expected to allow electronics manufacturers to make TVs and other gear that will work regardless of cable provider. By making devices compatible, the standard also could encourage the development of new services and features that rely on two-way communication over the cable network.
   
   Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable provider, will roll out the platform in all its markets by the end of 2008, Chief Executive Brian Roberts said in an interview with The Associated Press ahead of a speech Tuesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
   
   Time Warner Cable Inc. is even closer to completion, Comcast executives said. A spokesman for No. 3 provider Cox Communications Inc. said the company will have "widespread deployment" this year.
   
   "Our business model has changed completely, from a closed, proprietary model to an open architecture that will work across cable companies -- not just across Comcast," Roberts said. "That was a Herculean job to accomplish."
   
   Craig Moffett, senior analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said the industry is sending a hands-off signal to the Federal Communications Commission. Last summer, FCC officials said they would soon take on the issue of two-way compatibility between consumer electronics and cable systems.
   
   "They don't have a lot of friends at the FCC right now. The cable industry has every reason to be nervous," Moffett said. "I suspect a lot of this is trying to beat the FCC to the punch."
   
   CableLabs, the cable industry's research and development arm, which Roberts leads, was to announce Monday that its OpenCable platform, which began development in 1997, will now be branded as "tru2way."
   
   Cable providers and device manufacturers have long disagreed over the technical specifications for two-way communication among their devices. There are TVs and set-top boxes in the market that can receive digital programming, but they can't talk back to the network, which would allow advanced interactive services. That leaves consumers with having to rent a box from the cable company.
   
   And even with the new standards some discord remains.
   
   Though the cable industry has inked separate deals with electronics companies, including Panasonic, Samsung and LG, consumer electronics giant Sony isn't on board.
   
   The FCC -- where Chairman Kevin Martin supports a more open and competitive environment -- is also considering a different standard put forward by a group of consumer electronics companies.
   
   CableLabs said it has inked licensing agreements with Intel Corp. and Broadcom Corp. to develop chips to run the software. And Microsoft Corp. is expected to integrate the standard into future versions of its Windows operating system for personal computers.
   
   Comcast foresees "tru2way" branding on TVs, set-top boxes, PCs and other devices to signal their compatibility with cable systems.
   
   On Monday, Panasonic and Comcast plan to unveil a slew of products that will be compatible with "tru2way," including a plasma high-definition television, high-definition digital video recorders and a portable DVR.
   
   "You'll see a number of new 'tru2way' devices, and this is just the beginning," Roberts said. "This is Day One."
   
   The Panasonic Viera Plasma HDTV with "tru2way" will go on sale this year. Panasonic's portable DVD player and recorder, called "AnyPlay," lifts off a docking station and allows consumers to watch the programs they've recorded anywhere they like, on its 8.5-inch LCD screen. It is to go on sale in early 2009.
   
   Other products are expected to reach retail stores as early as the end of 2008. The timeframe gives cable leverage over the competing standard proposed by consumer electronics makers, whose devices might not make it to retail until 2009 at the earliest.
   
   Moffett said cable operators are telling the FCC that the industry can work with consumer electronics makers on two-way cable-compatible products.
   
   "That could tip the scales in their favor," Moffett said.
   
8. €d_Modus Vivendi 10 januari 2008 21:34

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   OPTV, , ) , a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced digital television and cross-platform interactive services, announced today that TrueVisions UBC, Thailand's leading digital pay-TV operator, has selected OpenTV's middleware solution to enable and power their new PVR services.
   "OpenTV is very excited to have been selected by TrueVisions UBC to enable a wide array of PVR functionalities and power a strong offering of new services," said Mike Ivanchenko, OpenTV's Senior Vice President of Sales. "This new deployment further strengthens OpenTV's position as the provider of choice for middleware solutions and reinforces our vision of an integrated digital world where consumers have easy access to meaningful and targeted content."
   TrueVisions UBC will be offering standard definition personal video recorders by Humax integrated with OpenTV Core2 and OpenTV PVR2 solutions, in combination with Irdeto's content security for digital TV. OpenTV's advanced platform will provide TrueVisions UBC subscribers with a range of interactive TV content, PVR services and will allow for mobile and Web management of their PVR services. The EPG, PVR applications, and interactive TV services were developed by TrueVisions UBC and integrated seamlessly with OpenTV's platform.
   "OpenTV has been a key partner in our efforts to offer compelling and advanced services to better enable our customers' lifestyle to enjoy television and other value added services," said Ongard Prapakamol, Chief Commercial Officer for TrueVisions UBC. "Their solutions enable us to fulfill our product strategy in providing a well integrated PVR with a highly intuitive user experience and compelling interactive TV services like football live score, games, and much more exciting services to come."
   TrueVisions UBC's PVR services are currently in final testing and are expected to launch early 2008.
   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 more than 96 million digital set-top boxes and digital televisions around the world, and enables enhanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal video recording, enhanced television, interactive shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and a variety of consumer care and communication applications. For more information, please visit www.opentv.com.
   About True Visions Plc.
   TrueVisions UBC, a subsidiary of True Corporation Plc, is the largest subscription-based television provider in Thailand. TrueVisions provides a superior-quality signal through its CAtv and DStv networks. TrueVisions is committed to delivering globally-popular programming on 82 high-quality channels, including infotainment, knowledge, news, sports, and entertainment content. TrueVisions boasts a wide selection of home entertainment as well as impressive after sale service. TrueVisions offer its subscribers the Platinum Package, Gold Package, Silver Package, True Knowledge Package, and 38 channel convergence package known as TrueLife Free View. And now TrueVisions also offers a new buy-through package from HBO, Discovery and Disney.
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9. €d_Modus Vivendi 14 januari 2008 15:08

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   OpenTV and Auction Network Announce Deal
   OpenTV Participate(TM) Solution to power first-ever Internet and TV network devoted to the auction industry in the US
   
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   OPTV 1.26, -0.03, -2.3%) , a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced television and cross-platform interactive services, announced today that Auction Network, the first-ever US television network devoted to the auction industry, has chosen the OpenTV Participate solution to power its live Internet auction business and upcoming television launch.
   Auction Network, whose programming will feature televised and live auctions ranging from thoroughbred horse sales in Kentucky to Ozzy Osbourne's celebrity auction to wine auctions from around the world, will use OpenTV Participate to handle all auction transactions, allowing viewers to interact in real-time with television programming via Web, IVR voice telephony, portable devices and, in the future, set-top boxes. Auction Network delivers the thrill and excitement of live auction programming with the interactivity to make it easy to view items, place bids and become the high bidder, even if the auction is on the other side of the world.
   "Auction Network has a unique and exciting vision that fully embraces many of the new concepts OpenTV has been developing in our enterprise product strategy for broadcasters," said Ben Bennett, OpenTV's Chief Operating Officer. "One of the most important concepts, in our view, is the absolute pre-requisite for broadcasters to have a direct two-way relationship with their viewers -- Auction Network is a wonderful example of that capability."
   "With Auction Network launching as a 24/7 streaming Internet Network rapidly migrating to live TV, the biggest challenge we faced was seamless integration of traditional and new media broadcast technologies with customer interaction and data aggregation," said Pam McKissick, Auction Network's Chief Executive Officer. "OpenTV Participate allows us to do that without over-complicating our daily operations. We have found that OpenTV Participate is a visionary, second-generation system that dramatically alleviates issues our cutting edge broadcast network might face."
   OpenTV Participate's powerful servers enable unlimited concurrent auctions to be set up using simple wizard-based auction logic that supports more than 17 types of auction events. OpenTV Participate's fully integrated scheduling and studio console applications will give auction clerks, production staff and auctioneers live auction data providing dynamic TV programming, originated in studios and on location, with real-time viewer participation and instant business analysis.
   OpenTV Participate's modular solution also enables Auction Network to manage viewer registration, billing, fulfillment, accounts, customer care, loyalty schemes, and marketing using a single back-office application. With its state of the art CRM and marketing modules, and cross-platform data aggregation, OpenTV Participate will provide Auction Network with flexible business reporting, deep insight into customer behavior, global business analysis and instant communication with consumers at the touch of a button. In addition, the product can provide added-value content such as trivia, sponsor messages and interactive and targeted advertising.
   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 more than 96 million digital set-top boxes and digital televisions around the world, and enables enhanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal video recording, enhanced television, interactive shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and a variety of consumer care and communication applications. For more information, please visit www.opentv.com.
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    01.25.2008 — My colleague Jason Knott had an easy time recently justifying Matsushita’s official changing-of-the-name to Panasonic. I’ve failed in the past to give proper coverage to OnQ’s name-change to On-Q, and X-10’s change to X10. (Never underestimate the power of a hyphen.)
    
    So allow me to properly herald “tru2way” from CableLabs, the organization that represents the cable industry, and often toils with the nuances of marketing. Here’s how we got to tru2way, the successor (in name only) to OCAP and OpenCable.
    
    First there was the digital cable box with true two-way (spelled the uncool way) communications between the TV and the cable company, allowing consumers to enjoy VOD, PPV and electronic program guides.
    
    But we didn’t want no stinkin’ settop box, and neither did Congress or the Consumer Electronics Association. So our lawmakers mandated, at the very least, a one-way digital solution that would eliminate the cable set-top.
    
    After kicking and screaming for years, CableLabs finally gave us CableCard, which was begrudgingly built into many a TV set. That gave us box-less digital cable of the one-way, non-interactive variety (no VOD, PPV, or EPG) but oh so many headaches for which the CE industry blamed the cable industry and vice versa.
    
    All the while, CableLabs professed to be working on “CableCard 2.0” which would really eliminate the settop box and provide true two-way cable to TVs throughout the land.
    
    The enabling technology was dubbed OCAP for OpenCable Application Platform, with the wise marketers at CableLabs shortening the term to OpenCable for us regular folks.
    
    Despite its loving embrace by Panasonic and other big CE brands, OpenCable still hasn’t found its place in the hearts of TV makers and American households.
    
    And now we know why: It’s the brand, stupid.
    
    The CableLab folks worked feverishly to remedy that branding thing and have now replaced the onerous “OpenCable” moniker with “tru2way.”
    
    And look how well it’s working.
    
    CableLabs in a press release recently declared, “Tru2way Technology A Hit at 2008 CES.”
    
    From the release:
    
    “The 2008 CES was a landmark event for the cable industry,” said Dr. Richard R. Green, CableLabs President & CEO. “It permitted us to showcase our partnerships with leading consumer electronics manufacturers to develop TVs and other devices that will free consumers from the set-top box. The deployment of tru2way technology is the next evolution of TV in America.”
    
    The press release goes on to laud Panasonic, Samsung, LG Electronics and Thomson, which showed a total of six TVs and settop boxes with tru2way compatibility.
    
    Panasonic has implemented tru2way in its new Anyplay portable DVR, developed in conjunction with Comcast.
    In the mean time, CableLabs praises PC vendors for adopting the “intermediate” CableCard solution that “currently allows some cable content to flow to PCs.” That solution is called OpenCable Unidirectional Receiver or, more playfully, OCUR.
    
    A good dozen or so Media Center PC vendors have now incorporated OCUR into their products through built-in CableCard slots or external receivers. It’s been a long, slow, painful ride.
    
    We know how CableLabs can hasten OCUR’s adoption: Call it “tru1way.”
    
    Meanwhile, the cable industry is “working with Microsoft and other companies in the personal computer industry to enable tru2way on future Windows Media Center PCs, thus allowing reception of all cable digital services through the PC without requiring a separate set-top box.”
    
    Don’t get too caught up in today’s cute cable nicknames. They may all disappear with the software-based Downloadable Conditional Access System.
    
    DCAS ... just trips off the tongue.
    
    
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    OPTV 1.14, -0.08, -6.6%) , a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced television and advanced advertising services, today announced the beta availability of OpenTV EclipsePlus, its next generation campaign management solution. OpenTV EclipsePlus is a complete end-to-end advertising campaign management solution offering improved performance and scalability to fully support the increasing demands of local television advertising sales organizations, allowing them to maximize inventory, reduce manual tasks and significantly enhance their operational efficiencies.
    OpenTV EclipsePlus, which can be deployed on cable, satellite or telco platforms, is currently available for beta testing. General commercial availability is scheduled for May 2008, bringing the benefits of improved scale and performance to the market in time to support Olympic and political advertising seasons.
    "We expect OpenTV EclipsePlus to be the most stable and feature-rich traffic & billing solution available," said Tracy Geist, SVP Market Development for OpenTV. "We have had tremendous success with our OpenTV Eclipse(R) product, which powers advertising traffic & billing for nearly half of US cable deployments, and we continuously work to enhance it with added-value features that provide our customers with innovative advanced advertising solutions, help them grow their revenues and meet the challenges of today's television advertising marketplace."
    OpenTV EclipsePlus is designed to meet the ever-evolving needs of advertisers and accommodate the increasing complexity and traffic volume of ad sales operations with its ability to handle thousands of local and interconnect networks, schedule complicated channel environments and run multiple DMAs within a single database. Unique new features of OpenTV EclipsePlus will include a dynamic scheduler, an automated scheduling system that improves inventory yield and reduces labor intensive activities in large systems, and an advanced Web services interface, which provides support for electronic, real-time data exchange between the sales proposal system and OpenTV EclipsePlus for avails clearance and order management. This advanced Web interface will virtually eliminate the need for paper-based revisions and significantly reduce time spent clearing orders, allowing Sales staff to focus on selling ads.
    OpenTV will present the many features of OpenTV EclipsePlus during an Advanced Advertising Seminar it will be holding for ad sales teams nationwide March 11-13, 2008, in Dallas. For more information, visit www.opentv.com and click on the OpenTV Eclipse Seminar 2008 icon.
    About OpenTV
    OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of solutions for the delivery of digital interactive television and advanced advertising services. The company's middleware has been integrated in more than 96 million digital set-top boxes and digital televisions around the world, and enables enhanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal video recording, enhanced television, interactive shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and a variety of consumer care and communication applications. OpenTV's advertising inventory management solutions, including Eclipse(R), currently manage cable advertising spot buys in 19 of the top 25 television markets, reaching nearly 35 million households across the United States. For more information, please visit www.opentv.com.
    Cautionary Language Regarding Forward-Looking Information
    The foregoing information contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in political, economic, business, competitive, market and regulatory factors. In particular, factors that could cause our actual results to differ include risks related to: market acceptance of interactive television services and applications such as ours; delays in the development or introduction of new applications and versions of our service; technical difficulties with networks or operating systems; our ability to manage our resources effectively; changes in technologies that affect the television industry; and the protection of our proprietary information. These and other risks are more fully described in our periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can be obtained online at the Commission's web site at www.sec.gov. Readers should consider the information contained in this release together with other publicly available information about our company for a more informed overview of our company. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
    SOURCE: OpenTV Corp.
    
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    OpenTV Continues to Impact Television Viewing, Surpasses Major Industry Milestone of 100 Million Enabled Devices Worldwide
    OpenTV Leads Industry as the Premier Provider of Digital Television Services Deploying More Digital Devices Than Any of Its Competitors
    
    SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The television viewing experience has changed dramatically over the past ten years. Passive, one-way delivery of viewing content has evolved into a highly interactive, two-way television experience, due in large part to significant contributions by OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ GM: OPTV), a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced television and interactive services. Today, OpenTV is pleased to announce that more than 100 million OpenTV-enabled digital set-top boxes and televisions have been deployed worldwide.
    
    Since its first deployments in 1997, OpenTV’s technology has been integrated into more digital set-top boxes and televisions than any of its competitors and has an industry footprint that extends today into 100 countries, through partnerships with more than 50 network operators and 40 set-top box manufacturers.
    
    In just over ten years, OpenTV’s technology has greatly changed the way people enjoy television around the world, as a result of long-standing partnerships with global leaders including customers such as News Corporation, EchoStar, and Liberty Global; set-top box manufacturers such as Pace Micro Technology and Thomson; chipset vendors such as ST Microelectronics and Broadcom; and conditional access partners such as Nagravision, Irdeto and NDS. As PVR penetration grows and as other technologies such as broadband, video-on-demand and high definition gain popularity among consumers, OpenTV is committed to meeting the growing demands of the industry, enabling operators worldwide to offer advanced services to their viewers. On a global scale, OpenTV supports the largest installed base of PVR devices among middleware providers.
    
    “As we surpass the 100 million device mark, I can proudly state that OpenTV’s technology has truly become the cornerstone of digital television services around the world,” said Ben Bennett, OpenTV’s Chief Operating Officer. “This is no small feat when you consider the size and complexity of the global television industry. We have come a long way since the late nineties when HDTV, DVR’s and advanced interactive services were still immature technologies and not fully consumer-grade quality. That has now changed as we see the deployment of much more advanced interactivity being integrated with the traditional viewing experience. Considering that still only ten percent of the world’s 1.78 billion televisions are digitally enabled, we have a great market opportunity ahead of us.”
    
    Viewer experiences around the world illustrate how 100 million OpenTV-enabled digital devices have changed the way consumers interact with their televisions. In the United States, DISH Network viewers are now voting and polling through their televisions, as illustrated by the recent launch of its DISH Decision 2008 interactive election application. DishTV subscribers in India are playing interactive cricket and FOXTEL subscribers in Australia are selecting and voting for their favorite television shows in Australia. In 2004, nearly nine million BSkyB digital satellite viewers in the United Kingdom, representing 58 percent of the available digital satellite audience at that time, used the BBC's interactive 2004 Summer Olympic Games services powered by OpenTV.
    
    “We have a long-standing relationship with OpenTV and are pleased to be a part of this industry milestone,” said Carl Vogel, Vice Chairman of DISH Network. “Through our partnership with OpenTV and use of their technology, we have been able to differentiate our platform in the market. This was most recently illustrated by the launch of our DISH Decision 2008 application, which was a collaborative effort on behalf of our two companies.”
    
    Neil Gaydon, Chief Executive Officer at Pace Micro Technology commented: “We have been an OpenTV licensee since the beginning, and we have worked together on some of the world’s most exciting digital TV launches. Most recently this work has included a number of high definition PVR developments, including the first Pace/OpenTV/Irdeto partnership for the launch of Turkey’s first HD PVR. At Pace, our focus is on delivering great products to our customers every time, but this can only be achieved by working with the best partners in set-top box technology. We are proud to say that OpenTV is just such a partner.”
    
    The achievement of 100 million deployed digital devices is truly remarkable when compared against other consumer technology icons. For example, OpenTV’s 100 million digital devices surpass the combined units sold of Xbox, Xbox 360, Sony PS3, and Nintendo Wii since their respective launches. In addition, 100 million OpenTV-powered digital devices is more than eight times the number of BlackBerrys sold to date.
    
    “This significant accomplishment is an absolute tribute to OpenTV’s people, technology, customers and partners across the globe who have helped make it happen,” continued Bennett. “We have a strong roadmap for 2008 and beyond, and look forward to celebrating more achievements in the coming years.”
    
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    OpenTV Announces New Customer Win in Partnership With Nagravision
    ZON TV Cabo, Portugal's Largest Cable and Satellite Operator, to Launch Advanced Digital Television Services Using OpenTV Core2(TM) and OpenTV PVR2(TM)
    
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    OPTV 1.06, +0.02, +1.9%) , a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced television and cross-platform interactive services, announced today that its middleware and enterprise solutions have been selected by ZON TV Cabo in Portugal to support the operator's upcoming HD PVR launch.
    The solution selected by ZON TV Cabo features OpenTV Core2(TM) and OpenTV PVR2(TM), OpenTV's fifth-generation middleware technology and is designed to support both high-definition and standard-definition displays. ZON TV Cabo is an existing customer of Nagravision's conditional access solutions.
    "Adding ZON TV Cabo as a customer further reinforces our footprint and cable presence in Europe, with Portugal being an important new market for us," said Ben Bennett, OpenTV's Chief Operating Officer. "Through our strong partnership with Nagravision and the Kudelski Group, we are offering bundled, turnkey solutions to operators worldwide. Our goal is to simplify the purchasing and technology deployment process for our customers and deliver advanced interactive services to market rapidly and cost effectively."
    "Nagravision has a long standing relationship with TV Cabo," said Pierre Roy, Chief Operating Officer, Digital TV and Executive Vice President, Kudelski Group. "We are very pleased at the opportunity to extend that relationship today through this offering."
    "We are very excited to offer our customers a compelling HD experience powered by OpenTV," said Zon TV Cabo spokesperson Luis Lopes. "We look forward to working with the OpenTV team and growing our partnership with Nagravision and the Kudelski Group."
    ZON TV Cabo is Portugal's leading cable and satellite provider with more than 1.5 million subscribers. TV Cabo is planning to launch its HD PVR service in the second quarter of 2008 with a number of new services to follow soon after, including video-on-demand.
    About OpenTV
    OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of solutions for the delivery of digital interactive television and advanced advertising services. The company's middleware has been integrated in more than 100 million digital set-top boxes and digital televisions around the world, and enables enhanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal video recording, enhanced television, interactive shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and a variety of consumer care and communication applications.
    About the Kudelski Group/Nagravision
    The Kudelski Group (SWX: KUD.VX) is a world leader in digital security and convergent media solutions for the delivery of digital and interactive content. Its technologies are used in a wide range of services and applications requiring access control and rights management to secure the revenue of content owners and service providers for digital television and interactive applications across broadcast, broadband and mobile delivery networks. The Kudelski Group is also a world technology leader in the area of access control and management of people or vehicles to sites and events. It additionally offers professional recorders and high-end Hi-Fi products. The Kudelski Group is headquartered in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, SwitzerlandPlease visit www.nagra.com for more information.
    Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company, is the world's leading independent supplier of open conditional access systems, DRM and integrated on-demand solutions for content providers and digital TV operators over broadcast, broadband and mobile platforms. Its technologies are currently being used by more than 100 leading Pay-TV operators worldwide securing content delivered to over 77,5 million active smart cards and devices. Please visit www.nagravision.com for more information.
    Cautionary Language Regarding Forward-Looking Information
    The foregoing information contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in political, economic, business, competitive, market and regulatory factors. In particular, factors that could cause our actual results to differ include risks related to: market acceptance of interactive television services and applications such as ours; delays in the development or introduction of new applications and versions of our service; technical difficulties with networks or operating systems; our ability to manage our resources effectively; changes in technologies that affect the television industry; and the protection of our proprietary information. These and other risks are more fully described in our periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can be obtained online at the Commission's web site at www.sec.gov. Readers should consider the information contained in this release together with other publicly available information about our company for a more informed overview of our company. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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    OpenTV cuts annual loss in half
    
    OpenTV Corp. reported a loss of $5.2 million for 2007, less than half its loss of $10.8 million for 2006.
    
    Sales for the year were $110 million, up from sales of $95.2 million in 2006.
    
    The San Francisco company (NASDAQ: OPTV) ended the year with $81.8 million in cash, equivalents and other securities.
    
    Ben Bennett, the company's acting CEO, said OpenTV took steps toward sustainable profitability this year.
    
    The company's fourth quarter results were:
    
    a profit of $11 million, compared with a loss of $3.4 million a year ago in the same quarter.
    sales of $38.2 million, compared with sales of $25.1 million a year ago in the same period.
    
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    OpenTV Swings To Profit In Q4; Revenues Rise 52% [OPTV]
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    March 10, 2008
    Cable Firms Join Forces to Attract Focused Ads
    By TIM ARANGO
    In an effort to slow Google’s siphoning of advertising dollars away from television, the nation’s six largest cable companies are making plans for a jointly owned company that would allow national advertisers to buy customized ads and interactive ads across the companies’ systems.
    
    For the last six months, executives from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Cox Communications, Charter Communications and Bright House Networks have been meeting monthly, alternating between New York and Philadelphia.
    
    Quarterbacking the initiative — code-named Project Canoe to emphasize that the companies must all work together — has been Stephen Burke, president of Comcast, and Landel C. Hobbs, the chief operating officer of Time Warner Cable.
    
    Getting the right advertisement to the right person, based on that individual’s own tastes and lifestyle, has been the promise of cable television for years and the reality of the Internet.
    
    The allure of online advertising is that it can be directed to individuals and that advertisers can quickly measure its effectiveness. After all, a bachelor living in a Manhattan high-rise surely does not need a pickup truck or a box of diapers. And a retiree living in Florida probably does not drink much Red Bull or venture online to find a date.
    
    Cable companies and even Google — which has a deal with the satellite TV company EchoStar to sell television ads — see customized features in television as a potential gold mine.
    
    But such newfangled advertising models are something the cable industry has promised for years, and until they see them on a large scale, advertisers and investors will remain cautious.
    
    That is why the industry has not made a more public splash about the initiative and why executives involved with the project asked not to be identified.
    
    Collectively, the cable companies will initially put about $150 million behind the effort in order to build a national service that can sell targeted advertising across all six cable systems.
    
    Cable companies have the ability to compile better data on users than Internet companies can glean, which could make focused ads on television more effective, according to Craig Moffett, a senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. It also makes the data that Project Canoe will collect from set-top boxes a valuable asset.
    
    “Addressable advertising on television is in many ways the holy grail, because it can offer ever more targeting ability than Google,” Mr. Moffett said (“addressable” is the industry term for targeted ads).
    
    While much ink has been spilled over the rise of Internet video and the decline of television, about 90 percent of all video consumed in the United States last year was done the old-fashioned way — watching shows as they came on TV — according to Starcom USA, whose clients include General Motors and Procter & Gamble. About 7 percent was via digital video recorder, 2 percent was online, and 1 percent was through video-on-demand services.
    
    Here is what is at stake. Combined, the nation’s cable operators generate about $5 billion in revenue from selling local advertising in markets where they own the infrastructure to people’s homes, a small slice of the $70 billion television advertising pot. They largely compete with local newspapers and radio stations. But Project Canoe will allow the industry to sell ads on a nationwide basis through a joint platform.
    
    For each hour of programming on a cable network, the cable operator owns about two minutes that it can sell to advertisers. The network, say ESPN or TNT, owns about 15 minutes that it can sell.
    
    Because the only way to deliver custom television advertising is through a cable set-top box, Project Canoe is also a way for the cable companies to get a piece of the advertising revenue. This is done by allowing cable networks like ESPN or a broadcast network like CBS to sell ads on Project Canoe’s platform and direct those ads using the vast amount of data collected from set-top boxes.
    
    The executives involved in Project Canoe think that, by working together, they can increase the cable industry’s take from $5 billion a year to $15 billion a year, according to an executive briefed on research compiled by Project Canoe.
    
    Another component of Project Canoe is interactive advertising, which allows television viewers to use remote controls to, say, request a brochure or call up more information about a product.
    
    “The investment community has been waiting for addressability for a generation,” said Mr. Moffett. “This has been hoped for for the better part of a decade. “But it was never going to happen without a coalition of the cable operators. This is a critical step forward.”
    
    Last spring, industry executives began discussing how they could devise a joint advertising platform to offer up to big national advertisers. But only recently, after prodding from media buyers for General Motors and Procter & Gamble, did the cable executives become more serious by deciding to establish a separate company.
    
    “As an advertiser, as an agency, it is so necessary that the cable industry act collectively,” said Tracey Scheppach, senior vice president and video and innovations director at Starcom. “Because they didn’t have a formal group before, they just threw stuff against the wall and some stuff stuck.”
    
    Ms. Scheppach has been involved in consulting with the cable companies on the project. “Starcom has been working with the cable industry for several years to drive advertising standards,” including video-on-demand, tailored ads and interactive advertising, she said. “To me, this is an outgrowth and a formalization of that.”
    
    The group recently hired the recruitment firm Spencer Stuart to search for a chief executive, according to executives briefed on the plans.
    
    “They’re trying to figure out, do they want someone from inside the cable industry, or do they want someone from inside the advertising industry?” Mr. Moffett said.
    
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    Bennett confirmed as OpenTV CEO
    March 10, 2008
    
    By Julian Clover
    
    OpenTV’s board of directors has confirmed the appointment of Ben Bennett as the middleware company’s chief executive officer. Bennett has been acting CEO since August 2007.
    
    “Since his appointment as Acting Chief Executive Officer, Ben has demonstrated strong leadership skills and has focused OpenTV on growing its core businesses of middleware and advanced advertising solutions and realigning its organization to achieve its goal of sustainable profitability,” André Kudelski, executive chairman of OpenTV said in a statement. “The Board of Directors has full confidence in Ben and believes that he is the right person to lead the company forward.”
    
    Bennett joined OpenTV in March 2000 and has enjoyed a number of roles at the company including a spell as managing director of OpenTV’s European operations