Liberate Partners With Hardware Vendors, Broadcasters, and Content Developers to Showcase First OnRamp to OCAP Services

Liberate Partners With Hardware Vendors, Broadcasters, and
Content Developers to Showcase First OnRamp to OCAP Services
The Weather Channel, Buzztime Entertainment and MetaTV Sign Up to Develop
Applications on Liberate TV Navigator(TM) 5 


NEW ORLEANS, May 4  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Liberate Technologies(R) (LBRT)
announced today it is teaming with industry leading hardware vendors,
broadcasters and content developers to roll-out the first cable services built
for the "OnRamp to OCAP" specification (JSR 242 of the Java Community Process,
awaiting completion). Liberate is demonstrating applications from the Weather
Channel, Buzztime , and MetaTV running unchanged on both Motorola DCT-2000 and
Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 2000 class set-top boxes, as well as on
forward-looking OCAP compliant boxes from Pioneer and ADB.

Liberate TV Navigator 5 provides the industry's first implementation of the JSR
242 specification allowing cable operators to embrace the OCAP standard on the
set-top boxes they have already deployed.  As seen in Liberate's OnRamp
demonstration, content developers can now author applications that will run
unchanged on any existing North American set-top box as well as on
next-generation OCAP devices.

"By working with Liberate to build OnRamp compliant applications, we can now
reach a much larger subscriber base with our OCAP application," said Lisa
Shankle, vice president of ITV and VOD at The Weather Channel.

"Liberate TV Navigator enables us to deploy multiplayer games today that will
last into the OCAP-generation of set-tops of the future," said Tyrone Lam,
president and COO of Buzztime Entertainment. "Our relationship with Liberate
makes our development efforts more efficient."

"OCAP helps us provide cable operators with cost-effective and competitive
applications," said Irv Kalick, President and CEO of MetaTV.  "Now Liberate's
OnRamp solution lets us deploy those same applications everywhere.  With our
application system now running on TV Navigator 5, cable operators and networks
can deploy many applications across all markets and set-top box platforms
rapidly."

A number of Liberate partners have endorsed the OnRamp standard and intend to
develop applications for current and future generations of cable set-tops.

"By building OnRamp compliant applications, Concurrent supports cable
operators' goals of simplifying integration of on-demand content with a variety
of interactive services," said Steve Necessary, president of Concurrent's VOD
Division.

"We are excited about Liberate's OnRamp solution as it provides our customers a
way to reach the legacy digital cable market with applications that have been
authored with our multi-platform on-Q Authoring solution," said Dalen Harrison,
President and CEO of Ensequence.

"We truly believe that driving industry standards is crucial in this inflection
point year for iTV and are excited to be a part of the OnRamp initiative," said
Scott Newnam, CEO of GoldPocket Interactive.

"Navic has long been a supporter of the OCAP initiative," said Chet Kanojia,
CTO Navic Networks. "As such, Navic is working with Liberate to deliver OnRamp
compliant implementations of our own data transport technology and revenue
generating applications."

"OnRamp to OCAP helps us leverage our experience bringing iTV applications to
mobile phones," said Craig Dalton, Director of Business Development at Proteus.

"OnRamp is expected to be a great bridge between current and future
technologies," said Rebecca Lim, Director, Interactive Television Technology at
Starz Encore Group. "In this environment we can potentially run interactive
SVOD services with a consistent interface and code-base on a wider range of
set-tops."

Liberate is demonstrating TV Navigator 5 for customers, partners, and press
during the NCTA trade show. Liberate will be showing third-party OCAP
applications (such as those from The Weather Channel and Buzztime) running
unchanged on both OCAP and legacy Motorola and Scientific Atlanta set-top
boxes.

The demonstration is located in a Wyndham Riverfront suite (near the NCTA
show), and will be available from Monday through the end of the show. To
reserve a time to see the demonstration, please contact Sylvia Acacio (). 
Additional information is available at http://conference.liberate.com/.

About Liberate Technologies

Liberate Technologies is a leading provider of software for digital cable
systems.  Based on industry standards, Liberate's software enables cable
operators to run multiple services -- including High-Definition Television,
Video on Demand, and Personal Video Recorders -- on multiple platforms.
Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Liberate has offices in Ontario, Canada
and the United Kingdom.

NOTE:  Liberate and the Liberate design are registered trademarks of Liberate
Technologies.  Other product names used in association with these registered
trademarks are trademarks of Liberate Technologies.

  Contact:
   Paul Dawes
   Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing
   Liberate Technologies
   650-645-4007
   

   Blair Beebe
   Director of Marketing and Communications
   Liberate Technologies
   650-645-4010
   

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