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Integrated OTT Platform Shortens Time to Market, Provides Competitive Advantage for Set-Top Box OEMs

BROADCAST ASIA 2017, SINGAPORE– May 22, 2017 – Opera TV, the market leader in enabling OTT, and ALi Corporation, a leading Set-Top Box (STB) chipset provider, today announced the integration of Opera TV’s solution into ALi Corp.’s System-on-Chip (SoC) based Set-Top Boxes (STB). This market-ready solution enables STB manufacturers and Pay TV Operators the opportunity to deliver consumers with immediate access to premium OTT content through an engaging viewing experience directly from their STB device. 

“With a sharp focus on minimizing time-to-market for Pay TV Operators to enable OTT in the homes of the consumers, we’re excited to announce our collaboration with ALi . ,” said Aneesh Rajaram, CEO of Opera TV. “Our engineering teams have combined fluently, bringing to market a fully capable OTT platform that now empowers operators to fulfill their consumer agenda by integrating a premium OTT experience within their own offering.”  

‘Today’s consumers expect easy and effortless access to OTT content from the devices and services they already have within their homes. ALi Corp. is a leading innovator and developer in the set-top box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) market. By fully leveraging its core expertise in the set-top box industry, ALi Corp.’s solutions are recognized for their high levels of integration, superior performance reliability, premier customer-oriented service and compelling cost structure. Hundreds of Pay TV operators have adopted ALi Corp.’s solutions worldwide. ALi Corp.’s SoC for STBs with Opera TV’s product portfolio now delivers an all-in-one, modular solution for OTT integration, reducing cost and time-to-market.

ALi Corp. SoCs for STBs are ready to integrate with Opera TV’s latest complete suite of OTT-enabling products that support advanced UI rendering, HbbTV capabilities, a media streaming module with support for all popular adaptive streaming formats used in OTT, as well as an HTML5-based application platform providing tailored and engaging OTT viewing experiences. This ultimately allows ALi Corp.’s customers to effortlessly integrate over 1000 OTT apps into their own UI’s or using Opera TV’s UI, significantly reducing time to market.

“By providing an integrated solution we can make sure that consumers have access to the experience they want, while making it easier to for STB manufacturers and service providers to enter this fast evolving market,” said Tony Chang, Chief Operating Officer at ALi Corp. “Opera TV is known for the maturity, reliability and depth of their solution, thus a good partner for ALi. They work across a variety of device ecosystems seamlessly and make deployments easy.”

The Opera TV ecosystem is the world’s largest unified platform for connected TV devices spanning more than 40 million devices shipped each year. Opera TV solutions include Opera TV 2.0, a next-generation OTT platform; Opera TV Snap 3.0, a complete end-to-end OTT app generator for broadcaster, content providers, and video on demand (VOD) services; Opera TV SDK, a platform for creating and rendering HTML5-based and video-centric user interfaces; and the Opera TV Store, an OTT experience for consumers. Unlike individual OEM or operator platforms, the Opera TV platform evolves quickly to keep pace with market requirements, supporting the complex needs of demanding OTT services.

 About Opera TV

Opera TV is the market leader in enabling the TV industry’s transition to OTT. The Opera TV portfolio powers rich web experiences on tens of millions of devices each year, including Smart TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, Game Consoles and chipsets for more than 60 customers. The Opera TV ecosystem spans the Opera TV Store app platform with over a thousand entertaining apps tailor-made for TV, the Opera Devices SDK (software development kit) for creating and rendering HTML5-based user interfaces including optional modules to enable HbbTV, the Opera Media Streaming Module, to manage the rapidly changing global OTT streaming requirements, and the Opera TV browser for browsing the full web on TV. Opera TV offers solutions for OEMs, pay-TV operators, broadcasters and content publishers. Visit www.opera.com/tv to learn more.

About ALi Corporation

ALi Corporation is a leading innovator and developer in the set-top box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) market. By fully leveraging its core expertise in the set-top box industry, ALi Corp.’s solutions are recognized for their high levels of integration, superior performance reliability, premier customer oriented service and compelling cost structure. Hundreds of Pay TV operators have adopted ALi Corp.’s solutions worldwide. ALi Corp. was founded in 1987 with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, R&D centers as well as sales offices in Hsinchu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Geneva, Seoul, and Noida, and technical support teams throughout Asia. For more information, please visit www.alitech.com

Media Contact: 

Lisette Rauwendaal

McGrath/Power Public Relations for Opera TV 

+1 (408) 727-0351

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Jenny Lin

ALi Corp. 

+886 2 8752 2000

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首爾‧大韓民國 & 台北‧台灣 – March 27th, 2017 —機上盒(Set-Top Box)晶片領導廠商揚智科技與多螢幕互動電視平台開發商Alticast今日宣布雙方合作推出軟硬體整合計畫，將Alticast互動性“端到端”的架構整合至揚智STB晶片。此跨生態系合作計畫旨在為市場提供由混合式框架的中介軟體和高效能的STB晶片組成的無縫整合平台，以應變不斷變化的電視市場需求提供上市的建置加速，性能提升和加值服務。

Alticast為一跨國軟硬體架構領導開發商，致力於多螢幕互動TV解決方案。Alticast開發獨立於晶片組的機上盒軟體提供觀眾互動與個人化的元素。因為用戶對於電視觀看的享受不斷改變，Alticast 持續開發更多軟體功能，包含跨平台服務、迅速上市框架、和混合式的特色功能以豐富用戶的體驗。另一方面，揚智提供涵蓋面廣的高效能並符合成本效益的STB晶片，同時整合使用者友善移植介面於系統單晶片SoC。揚智與Alticast的平台整合案將會是雙贏局面以滿足未來Pay TV的成長。

Alticast表示“用戶不再滿足於線性電視提供的內容，而且新的服務提供廠商不斷進入市場並不斷分割。為保持市場領導地位，Alticast基於開放式架構，端到端基礎提供互動電視內容的傳送，接收與播放的軟體解決方案與服務。與揚智科技的合作表示我們得到一個可靠的夥伴提供涵蓋面廣的高性能且經濟的晶片組給用戶。”

揚智科技營運長張立中表示“這次的軟硬體整合合作對Alticast和揚智科技是雙贏局面， 雙方的整合也意指Alticast中間件與揚智SoC硬體的相容性驗證。雙方推出的整合性解決方案將是可應用在生態系迅速上市的佈署加速，節省開發成本，提升彈性與豐富用戶體驗。Alticast 與揚智科技的合作將幫助雙方生態系上的夥伴們加速上市的開發並利用豐富功能性的架構提升數位電視體驗。”

About ALi Corporation

揚智科技為專注於數位機上盒系統單晶片開發的創新領導廠商，結合數位機上盒的核心技術，揚智科技的產品素以整合度高、可靠性強、客戶服務周到與成本效益卓越聞名於業界，全球有數以百計的付費電視運營商採用揚智的解決方案。揚智科技成立於1987年，總部設立於台灣台北，另外在新竹、上海、深圳、珠海、瑞士日內瓦、韓國首爾以及印度諾伊達設有辦公地點。更多訊息請參考www.alitech.com

About Alticast

Alticast用安全的方式帶來令人驚艷的個人化與互動式內容透過廣播，寬頻與行動平台提供給超過四千六百萬台裝置。Alticast為座落於南韓首爾的上市公司，並且有分公司於荷蘭阿姆斯特丹，科羅拉多州布隆菲和越南河內市。如想了解更多，請參照 www.alticast.com，我們的部落格 Alticast’s blog TV-ready 論壇 www.tvreadyforum.blogspot.com

揚智媒體連絡人
Jenny Lin
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Alticast媒體連絡人

Jill O’Toole
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