New DISH Home Delivers Six Channel Mosaic of Popular Networks With Interactive Services
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OpenTV Corp. (Nasdaq: OPTV), one of the world's leading providers of technologies and services enabling the delivery of digital and interactive television, announced today that it developed and integrated an enhanced digital interactive application for EchoStar Communications Corporation's (Nasdaq: DISH) DISH Network(TM). Available to all of DISH Network's subscribers at channel 100, the new DISH Home channel will allow viewers to simultaneously watch six video windows of popular networks including CNN, The Weather Channel and E! displayed on an attractive full-motion video background.
The OpenTV-developed service allows viewers to navigate through each of the six video windows using the remote control's directional arrows. As they navigate, the audio changes to correspond with the currently highlighted video window. Full-screen video and audio automatically appears when a network window is selected. Viewers can access the wide selection of interactive services from the DISH Home channel, including customer service, news, and shopping and games. In addition, a text ticker allows EchoStar to provide up-to-the-minute news and events.
The new DISH Home channel is configurable, enabling EchoStar to refresh the six video services, interactive offerings, banner ads, and background and text ticker with new content at any given time. For example, DISH could swap out the six video windows with six different video feeds of a single event and update the full-motion video background to reflect the theme of the event.
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