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

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- Deployment Achieved in Record Time

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 Open TV

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 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.

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Contact:
Barbara Cassidy of OpenTV, +1-415-962-5000, or bcassidy@opentv.com;
or Rajiv Khattar of Essel Group, +919-8111-56795, or
rkhattar@dishtvindia.esselgroup.com; or Shirley Wong Walker of
Manning Selvage & Lee, +86-21-6133-8591, or
shirleywongwalker@sh.mslpr.com, for OpenTV