OpenTV Selected By Spain's First Digital Terrestrial TV Network

OpenTV (NASDAQ: OPTV) (Amsterdam Stock Exhange: OPTV), the leading worldwide provider of software that enables digital interactive television, announced that Quiero Television SA (formerly known as Onda Digital), Spain's first digital terrestrial television network, has chosen OpenTV as a software provider for interactive television services. This announcement significantly expands OpenTV's reach into the Spanish digital television market, which includes an existing relationship with the Spanish digital satellite television network operator, Via Digital. Quiero Television plans to launch OpenTV-enabled interactive services to its digital terrestrial television audience, beginning in Spring 2000. Quiero Television viewers will then have the ability to experience OpenTV's brand of interactive television, which has already proved to be popular in Spain with Via Digital's 500,000 subscribers during 1999. The types of OpenTV interactive television services currently used by Via Digital include home banking, weather, games and live Spanish football broadcasts. Quiero TV may launch similar OpenTV services on its digital terrestrial network, which may also include an integrated e-commerce application, allowing Spanish television viewers to purchase products and merchandise via their televisions. ""Together with Quiero Television, we are offering a new kind of television experience to Spanish viewers,"" said Jan Steenkamp, OpenTV President and Chief Executive Officer. ""With this new, digital terrestrial TV design win, OpenTV will be able to introduce Spanish television viewers to the most advanced interactive television services available today. ""We are proud to be working with a pioneer like Quiero Television, and look forward to deploying a range of compelling interactive services that we believe the Spanish television audience will truly enjoy."" In 2001, European digital terrestrial television operators will use the DVB-MHP hardware format as a common standard for digital television broadcast. As a member of the DVB-MHP standardization forum, OpenTV will also be able to offer Quiero Television a smooth migration path when implementing this standard for digital terrestrial television in Spain.About OpenTVOpenTV is the leading worldwide provider of software that enables digital interactive television. OpenTV provides a complete end-to-end solution for the development and delivery of interactive services via digital satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcast. OpenTV set-top box software has been shipped with, or installed in, more than 6.1 million digital set-top boxes worldwide. To date, OpenTV software solutions have been selected by 25 television network operators worldwide, including British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) in the United Kingdom and TPS in France. EchoStar's DISH Networkô is scheduled to launch interactive services utilizing OpenTV software in the United States in early 2000. The OpenTV set-top box software is licensed to more than 20 digital set-top box manufacturers, and OpenTV's authoring tools are licensed to more than 100 independent developers and content and service providers. OpenTV is a member of the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) project, CableLabs OpenCable initiative, ATSC DASE, and JavaTV. OpenTV is a licensee of Personal Javaô from Sun Microsystems. OpenTV is now supported by investments from eight leading Internet and broadcast companies including America Online (NYSE: AOL), General Instrument (NYSE: GIC), Liberty Digital (NASDAQ: LDIG), News Corporation (NYSE: NWS), Shaw Communications (NYSE: SJR) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), in addition to Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) and MIH Limited (NASDAQ: MIHL). Worldwide headquarters for OpenTV is located in Mountain View, California, with European operations in Paris and London; and offices in Tokyo; Seoul, South Korea; Beijing; and Sydney, Australia. Information on OpenTV is available at www.OpenTV.com.About Quiero Television SAQuiero Television is Spain's first digital terrestrial television network. Its main shareholders are telecom operator Retevision SA (49 percent equity), film producer Media Park (15 percent equity), and a host of Spanish financial institutions