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IBM in pact with OpenTV for software

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EAST FISHKILL, NY: International Business Machines Corp. and OpenTV on

Tuesday announced a pact to use OpenTV's interactive television software in TV

set-top boxes based on the next generation of IBM's PowerPC chips.

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OpenTV stock was up 65 cents, or 8.4 per cent, at $8.29 at midday on Nasdaq.

OpenTV's interactive TV software is now deployed in more than 18.2 million

set-top boxes worldwide, the company said. The software allows viewers to manage

e-mail via their TV sets, watch shows from different angles and order movies

with a click of the remote control.

IBM is developing higher performance chips for the next generation of set-top

boxes, which would offer a wider range of uses for a TV set - including as a

personal video recorder or to browse the Web.

"We have several million Power PC-based chips that we've deployed into

the digital set-top box marketplace in the four or five years we've been focused

on this market," said John Sixsmith, IBM's digital video products marketing

manager. "Many of them already run Open TV. This is an ongoing

relationship."

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