OpenTV
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Digital television |
| Fate | Acquired by the Kudelski Group |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Cheseaux, Switzerland, OpenTV based in San Francisco, USA |
| Products | Television operating systems, middleware, TV User Interface, and advertising |
| Revenue | $120 million (for the year ended on December 31, 2009) |
| Owner | Kudelski Group |
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Number of employees
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600 |
| Parent | Kudelski Group |
| Website | www |
OpenTV or OpenTV Connectware is a software platform product line within the Nagra Digital Television Products & Services offering.
OpenTV is a global software technology company for interactive and digital television. OpenTV was founded in 1994 through the merge of Thomson Multimedia and Sun Microsystems. Its primary business involved the sale of set-top-box operating systems and middleware software as well as advanced advertising products, and on March 28, 2010 OpenTV became a fully owned subsidiary of the Nagra Kudelski Group - Nagravision (or Nagra Kudelski) - and OpenTV as a company was delisted from the NASDAQ, where it had been listed under the symbol OPTV.
OpenTV's flagship product is OpenTV (formerly known as OpenTV Core), a widely deployed digital television middleware. OpenTV 2.x software technology contains a hardware abstraction layer to enable hardware independence, TV libraries, a broadcast stack (DVB-T/DVB-C/DVB-S, ISDB, ATSC...), a selection of application execution environments, and Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) to create a digital television environment for set-top box.
Nagara offers OpenTV 2 middleware bundled with the award winning nX2 guide and user interface with their Quickstart solution.
OpenTV 2 middleware has shipped more than 160 million set-top boxes worldwide. It passed the 100 million mark in February 2007. The OpenTV 2 middleware was deployed at BSkyB (UK), Sky Italia (Italy), Digital+ (Spain), Télévision Par Satellite TPS (France), Numericable (France), EchoStar (USA), Bell ExpressVu (Canada), Foxtel (Australia), Austar (Australia), Sky New Zealand (New Zealand), Showtime (Saudi Arabia), Evision (Dubai), Cablecom (Switzerland), Euskaltel (Spain), Auna (Spain), StarHub (Singapore), TrueVisions (Thailand), Viasat (Nordic), HOT (Israël), Net Serviços de Comunicação (Brazil), Zee Dish TV of Essel Group (India), TV Cabo (Portugal), Cabovisão (Portugal), Digiturk (Turkey), Etisalat (UAE), NTV-Plus (Russia), Liberty Global UPC Broadband (Europe), Nova (Greece), DStv (South Africa), among many other pay-TV operation globally
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