OpenTV Launches on DishTV, India's First and Fastest-Growing Satellite Service

OpenTV Launches on DishTV, India's First and Fastest-Growing Satellite Service

March 13, 2007

Deployment Achieved in Record Time


    SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- OpenTV
Corp. (Nasdaq: OPTV), a leading provider of enabling
technologies for advanced television and cross-platform
interactive services, today announced that it has
successfully integrated and downloaded its Core2 software
to over 1,400,000 set-top boxes for DishTV.  DishTV, part
of the Essel Group of companies, has launched advanced
digital television services that include a new 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, an industry record for a launch
of this size.

    The next phase of deployment will introduce further
applications as well as a PVR built around OpenTV's PVR2
software.  With over one million subscribers and an
expected annual growth rate of 100% per year, 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, as Sitibase converts
its cable systems from analog to digital.  Conax conditional
access is used by DishTV.

    According to Mike Ivanchenko, Senior Vice President
& Managing Director, Asia Pacific, at OpenTV,
"We're delighted with the speed with which our team
was able to launch DishTV services.  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% 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."

    "Working with OpenTV has resulted in a mutually
beneficial partnership that has dramatically accelerated
the growth of digital television in India," said
Jawahar Goel, Additional Vice Chairman of Essel Group. 
"The basic boxes we have deployed are perfectly suited
to the Indian market, but difficult to deploy.  OpenTV's
speed in launching with these boxes will enable subscribers
to immediately take advantage of `enhanced cricket' and
other interactive services for which viewers have been
clamoring."

    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 81 million digital set-top boxes and digital
televisions 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 http://www.opentv.com.

    About Essel Group

    Essel Group has a vast range of national and global
business interests that include media programming,
broadcasting and distribution, packaging, entertainment,
online gaming, and telecom.

    Essel Group has always been a pioneer-Zee TV was the
first Indian satellite channel, Siticable the first MSO,
Esselworld the first theme park, Playwin the first online
lottery, Essel Propack the world's number one in
packaging-all revolutionary concepts in their respective
fields.

    Continuing with the same path-breaking tradition, the
group has recently launched DishTV, India's first DTH
service, which in a short span of time has established
itself as the leading content provider with in India,
bringing to the viewers a new era of premium quality TV
viewing. DishTV is going to provide its live service on
Kingfisher premium airline, the second airline in the world
to deploy such capability.

    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
http://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. 



    For more information, please contact:

     Barbara Cassidy 
     OpenTV
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     Email: [e-mail]

     Rajiv Khattar 
     Essel Group
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Shirley Wong Walker 
     Manning Selvage & Lee
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     Email: [e-mail]