OPENTV DEPLOY MORE THAN 18.2 MILLION STB’S WORLDWIDE

OPENTV, ONE of the world's leading interactive television and media solutions company, have announced that their middleware has been installed in a market-leading 18.2 million digital set-top boxes (STB) worldwide as of June 30, 2001.
Deployment growth in the quarter included digital cable, digital satellite and digital terrestrial networks.
Deployments in the quarter ended June 30, 2001 totalled 2.2 million units, a 47 per cent increase from the more than 1.5 million STB deployments reported by OpenTV for the second quarter of 2000.
CEO of OpenTV, John Ackerman: "OpenTV have extended their lead in iTV technology deployments with our third consecutive quarter in excess of two million set-top box deployments. With our market-leading core platform deployment base of over eighteen million set-top boxes, our world-class iTV professional services team and our rapidly growing iTV applications business, OpenTV continues to demonstrate our industry leadership in providing the complete iTV solution to digital cable, satellite and terrestrial network operators." (CD)