OpenTV Announces 7.8 Million Set-Top Boxes Now Deployed

NEW ORLEANS–May 8, 2000–OpenTV (Nasdaq:OPTV) (AEX:OPTV) today
announced that its OpenTV software is now installed in more than
7.8 million digital set-top box

es (STBs) worldwide.
For the second consecutive quarter, OpenTV’s technology was
shipped with more than 1.6 million STBs, further reinforcing the
company’s position as the worldwide market share leader in digital
interactive television software. This represents a 148 percent
increase from 0.6 million STBs shipped in the first quarter of 1999.