provides software, applications, and professional services for interactive television worldwide.
It offers technology, content and applications, and services that enable digital television network operators to deliver and manage interactive television services on various digital television platforms, such as cable, satellite, and terrestrial.
The company’s middleware and integrated technologies provide a common platform for network operators, set-top box and other manufacturers of consumer electronics devices, programmers, content producers, advertisers, and interactive application developers to create, deliver, and manage interactive television applications and content for various digital television environments and network architectures.
Its software offerings have been installed primarily in set-top boxes and serves as the gateway for delivering and managing interactive television to viewers.
The company’s applications enable viewers to play interactive games, as well as to engage in commerce transactions; retrieve information, such as weather reports and sports updates; and engage in other interactive services, including fixed-odds gaming, through their televisions.
OpenTV also offers a suite of professional engineering and consulting services.
It operates in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; the United Kingdom, and Italy.
The company was formed in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
