Alticast to Showcase Its Latest Digital and Interactive TV Solutions at IBC 2009

Including First Commercialized Hybrid Receiver Delivering Seamless Mix of VOD and Catch-Up Services Content Through IP Networks Simultaneously With High-Quality Linear Interactive HD Real-Time Channels via Satellite

SEOUL, KOREA — Alticast, the worldwide leader in deployed DVB-MHP and OpenCable Platform solutions, announced today that it will reveal their latest technology for interactive TV during IBC 2009. Alticast will unveil the world’s first single middleware, dual interactive commercialised hybrid receiver, powered by Alticast’s Alticaptor middleware.

Single middleware driven, dual-interactive hybrid receivers will represent the future of broadcasting services enabling subscribers to enjoy a seamless mix of VOD and catch-up services content through their IP network simultaneously with high-quality linear interactive HD real-time channels via satellite.

Alticast will further demonstrate a comprehensive HD-DVR Hybrid solution founded on the tru2way™ platform and based on the Broadcom 7405 chipset. In addition to typical DVR and time-shift functionalities, the Alticast DVR Hybrid solution includes browser solutions support. The product will deliver all HD DVR functionalities, DnP server based VOD solution and YouTube UCC based on its browser solution.

“In a mature interactive MHP/Tru2way market it is clear that the operators and broadcasters can focus on the delivery of services and content in the knowledge that these advanced middleware engines can deliver everything required in an advanced Hybrid Broadband, Broadcast television services environment,” said Anthony Smith-Chaigneau, Managing Director of Alticast, GmbH.

Alticast will also showcase its Awaken TV™, a next-generation channel navigation solution, a new FASTMHP/Tru2way Open Standard GUI product designed specifically to meet the needs of the high definition broadcast, Cable, Satellite, and IPTV industries by delivering a quantum leap in the end-user experience (UX) on digital TVs.

The new “Televisual Experience” of AwakenTV brings advances in digital TV television graphical user interfaces via the presentation of video, graphics, interactive Internet applications, audio, as well as faster remote response times.

Alticast Corporation has been focused on interactive data broadcasting since its establishment in 1999. Since that time, Alticast has acquired an excellent reputation as an iTV platform solutions and services provider. IBC 2009 is expected to further display Alticast as an innovative market leader in the field of digital broadcasting.

Demonstrations will take place at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam from September 11-15, 2009 in hall 1, booth 1.C35.