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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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Broadcast Asia 2017, SUNTECH Singapore
May 23-25 2017, TV Everywhere Zone @ Level 4 , Booth #4B2-01

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Seoul S, Korea & Taipei, Taiwan – March 27th, 2017 — ALi Corporation, a leading innovator and developer of set-top box chipsets, and Alticast, a worldwide leader in multi-screen, interactive TV platforms, today announced their partnership to have Alticast’s interactive, end-to-end architecture pre-integrated on ALi STB SoC chipsets. The cross-ecosystem partnership aims to supply the market with seamlessly integrated platforms comprised of hybrid framework middleware and high-performance STB chipsets in order to offer time-to-market deployment acceleration, performance boost and value-added services in response to the changing demands in TV viewing landscapes.

Alticast is a multi-national leader in software and middleware architectures for multi-screen and interactive TV solutions. Alticast develops chipset-independent STB software that brings interactive and personalized elements to viewers. As subscribers demonstrate changing preferences in TV viewing, Alticast continues to develop software innovations including cross-device services, robust application framework, and hybridized features to enrich viewer experiences. ALi, on the other hand, offers a wide coverage of cost-effective and high-performance STB chipsets, and integrates user-friendly software porting interface along with the SoC design. The platform pre-integration between Alticast and ALi benefits both parties to meet the growth of Pay TV.

“Subscribers are no longer satisfied by linear TV offerings, and the entry of new service providers into the market has driven further fragmentation,” said Dosa Park, Senior Vice President, Platform Business Unit for Alticast Corporation. “To remain a leader in the market, Alticast offers software solutions and services for the delivery, reception and playback of interactive TV contents on a scalable and future-ready go-to-market media service platform.
The opportunity to collaborate with ALi means we have a reliable partner that supplies a wide range of hardware platforms to provide subscribers an economical, yet high-performance, TV viewing experience.”

“The partnership is mutually beneficial to both Alticast and ALi, symbolizing the validations and integrations between Alticast middleware and ALi SoC hardware. The integrated solutions by both parties are ecosystem-ready to accelerate deployment processes, save development costs, enhance flexibility and enrich user experiences,” said Tony Chang, Chief Operating Officer, ALi Corporation. “The collaboration between ALi and Alticast will help our ecosystem partners in time-to-market developments and improve digital TV experiences with feature-rich architectures.”

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 

About Alticast

Alticast develops multi-screen solutions that enable service providers to quickly and reliably deliver innovative TV experiences to every customer. Alticast's STB software, CAS/DRM, Smart UI/UX and Cloud Server solutions are based on non-proprietary software such as HTML5, RDK and GEM. The most deployed digital television provider, Alticast securely brings compelling personalized and interactive content to more than 46 million devices via broadcast, broadband and mobile platforms. The publicly traded company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with major offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Broomfield, Colorado; and Hanoi, Vietnam. For more information, visit www.alticast.com and read Alticast's blog, TV Ready Forum, at www.tvreadyforum.blogspot.com.

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NAB Show 2017, Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), Las Vegas, NV USA

April 24-27 2017, South Hall , #SU11624MR

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At NAB Show 2017, ALi will present a full spectrum of PayTV STB chipset solutions ranged from cost-effective zapper to value-added hybrid. We are honored to present to you our latest achievements. Please visit ALi's booth or send a meeting request to your ALi contacts or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..