Louisville, Colorado, April 19, 2000—Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs®) reported today that nearly 120 people representing more than 50 different companies participated in the OpenCable™ Hardware Developer�s Conference, which was held here last week.

The conference was designed to be a forum to facilitate information sharing and collaboration for the OpenCable specifications. It brought together designers, manufacturers, and service providers engaged in developing set-top boxes, system components and interfaces, and developer tools compatible with the OpenCable specifications, as well as new vendors exploring or entering into the broadband cable market space.

"We organized this conference in order to demonstrate the cable industry�s commitment to support the vendors developing OpenCable-compliant end products," said Dr. Richard R. Green, CableLabs president and CEO.

"The number of participants here clearly represents the commitment on the part of the design and manufacturing community to the OpenCable specifications," said Don Dulchinos, Vice President of Advanced Platforms and Services at CableLabs. "This was a real working meeting."

The conference was coordinated and sponsored by CableLabs in partnership with vendors representing 12 different areas of component technology, testing and other technologies. Following presentations by CableLabs staff on OpenCable issues, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, ITE, Teralogic, ATI, LG Electronics, Texas Instruments, Microtune, Silicon Wave, Sarnoff Laboratories, Wavetek Wandel and Goltermann, and Margi gave presentations, which included descriptions and demonstrations of set-top boxes, chip-set architectures, system interfaces, integrated tuner solutions, POD (point-of-deployment) emulator modules, and transport stream simulation.

Attendees ranged from start-ups to large multi-national firms, many of whom sent multiple members to the conference to represent their various business units. A list of participating companies is attached to this release.

"I�m very pleased with the great response we had from the OpenCable vendors," said Michael Davis, OpenCable Vendor Relations Manager for CableLabs. "This conference provided these companies with an open forum for creating partnerships and for sharing information that will benefit the entire OpenCable community."

OpenCable is a fast-track initiative sponsored by leading cable television companies, managed through CableLabs, with a goal of attaining interoperable digital set-top boxes and other advanced digital devices manufactured by multiple vendors. These devices would be capable of delivering digital video, data and interactive services to a television set. The capability also may be built into consumer electronics devices, such as digital television receivers.

A list of participating companies follows.

• AT&T Broadband
• ATI Technologies
• Barco Communications Systems
• Broadcom
• CableLabs
• CableLabs Consultants: KPMG; Hamilton Technologies & Tranceive Technologies
• Canon
• C-Cube Microsystems
• Conexant Systems
• Divicom
• Excite@Home
• FCI USA, Inc
• Fujitsu Business Communication Systems
• Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Grundig Digital Systems
• Hitachi
• IBM Microelectronics
• ICTV
• iDTV
• Intel
• ITE
• JVC Laboratories of America
• LG Electronics
• Lucent
• Magis Networks
• Margi
• Merdan Group, Inc.
• Microtune, Inc.
• Mitsubishi
• Molex
• Motorola
• Navic Systems
• Nielson Media Research
• NxtWave Communications, Inc
• Oren Semiconductors
• Pace
• Panasonic
• Philips
• Pioneer
• Radium Technologies
• Samsung
• Sarnoff Corp
• Scientific-Atlanta
• Sharp
• Silicon Image
• Silicon Wave
• Solista
• Sony
• SSH Communications, Inc
• ST Microelectronics
• TeraLogic, Inc.
• Texas Instruments
• Thomson
• Toshiba
• Tritheim Technologies
• TV Guide Interactive
• VTC (Lucent)
• Wavetek Wandel Goltermann
• Whooshcom Corp

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