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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

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首尔‧大韩民国 & 台北‧台湾 – March 27th, 2017 —机顶盒(Set-Top Box)芯片领导厂商扬智科技与多屏幕互动电视平台开发商Alticast今日宣布双方合作推出软硬件整合计划，将Alticast互动性“端到端”的架构整合至扬智STB芯片。此跨生态系合作计划旨在为市场提供由混合式框架的中间件和高效能的STB芯片组成的无缝整合平台，以应变不断变化的电视市场需求提供上市的建置加速，性能提升和加值服务。

Alticast为一跨国软硬件架构领导开发商，致力于多屏幕互动TV解决方案。Alticast开发独立于芯片组的机顶盒软件提供观众互动与个人化的元素。因为用户对于电视观看的享受不断改变，Alticast 持续开发更多软件功能，包含跨平台服务、迅速上市框架、和混合式的特色功能以丰富用户的体验。另一方面，扬智提供涵盖面广的高效能并符合成本效益的STB芯片，同时整合用户友善移植接口于系统单芯片SoC。扬智与Alticast的平台整合案将会是双赢局面以满足未来Pay TV的成长。

Alticast表示“用户不再满足于线性电视提供的内容，而且新的服务提供厂商不断进入市场并不断分割。为保持市场领导地位，Alticast基于开放式架构，端到端基础提供互动电视内容的传送，接收与播放的软件解决方案与服务。与扬智科技的合作表示我们得到一个可靠的伙伴提供涵盖面广的高性能且经济的芯片组给用户。”

扬智科技营运长张立中表示“这次的软硬件整合合作对Alticast和扬智科技是双赢局面， 双方的整合也意指Alticast中间件与扬智SoC硬件的兼容性验证。双方推出的整合性解决方案将是可应用在生态系迅速上市的布署加速，节省开发成本，提升弹性与丰富用户体验。Alticast 与扬智科技的合作将帮助双方生态系上的伙伴们加速上市的开发并利用丰富功能性的架构提升数字电视体验。”

About ALi Corporation

扬智科技为专注于数字机顶盒系统单芯片开发的创新领导厂商，结合数字机顶盒的核心技术，扬智科技的产品素以整合度高、可靠性强、客户服务周到与成本效益卓越闻名于业界，全球有数以百计的付费电视运营商采用扬智的解决方案。扬智科技成立于1987年，总部设立于台湾台北，另外在新竹、上海、深圳、珠海、瑞士日内瓦、韩国首尔以及印度诺伊达设有办公地点。更多讯息，请参考 www.alitech.com

About Alticast

Alticast用安全的方式带来令人惊艳的个人化与交互式内容透过广播，宽带与行动平台提供给超过四千六百万台装置。Alticast为座落于南韩首尔的上市公司，并且有分公司于荷兰阿姆斯特丹，科罗拉多州布隆菲和越南河内市。如想了解更多，请参照 www.alticast.com，我们的部落格 Alticast’s blog TV-ready 论坛 www.tvreadyforum.blogspot.com

揚智媒體連絡人
Jenny Lin
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