Jeff Miller Named President and CEO of ICTV

Jeff Miller Named President and CEO of ICTV

LOS GATOS, Calif., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- ICTV, the creator of HeadendWare(R), the broadband industry's most powerful platform for the delivery and distribution of compelling interactive television content, announced today the appointment of Jeff Miller to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer.

Miller, who joined ICTV in 2000 as senior vice president of engineering, has led the development team responsible for the HeadendWare platform, and has been actively involved in ICTV's product management, sales and marketing activities. He replaces Mike McGrail, who successfully met the key corporate objectives of bringing HeadendWare to cable and broadband deployment in domestic and international markets.

"We're grateful to Mike for his role in helping the company achieve the goals we mutually established, and we wish him well," said Gary Lauder, founding investor and Chairman of ICTV. "As HeadendWare continues toward broader deployment, we anticipate that the same credible approach and leadership skills that Jeff Miller brought to its development over the past five years will help ICTV, its partners and its customers realize the full potential of the platform to generate new forms of revenue."

"ICTV today has a growing customer base that is a direct result of its strong content partner portfolio and industry leading technology," said Miller. "As network operators and programmers look to differentiate themselves in an increasingly cluttered media environment, the ability to offer a broader range of interactive and personalized services across the entire base of deployed set-tops and viewing devices will be critical. ICTV offers the highest flexibility among interactive television solutions, enabling compelling content from games to rich VOD menus to be supported by innovative business models on a single platform without new in-home equipment or complicated set-top applications."

During his five years with ICTV, Miller served as chief system architect for multiple releases of HeadendWare, and supervised a team of 50 engineers in Los Gatos, CA and Baltimore, MD. In addition, he has worked closely with key customers in the trial and deployment of the HeadendWare platform.

From 1991-96, Miller served as president of RISQ Modular Systems, a Newark, CA creator of custom embedded computing platforms that he co-founded and grew successfully. Miller negotiated the acquisition of RISQ by SMART Modular Technologies in 1996, and served as vice president of engineering for SMART until 1999, when he joined Force Computers as vice president, consulting engineering and applications.

Miller holds a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master's degree in systems management from the University of Southern California.

About HeadendWare(R)

ICTV's HeadendWare platform enables network operators to deliver compelling interactive content and applications, including animation, high- fidelity audio and full-motion video, to any digital set-top box. Using headend-based processing power and the existing digital plant, HeadendWare removes set-top box and middleware constraints on the delivery of compelling interactive multimedia content and allows TV-friendly activity that cannot be matched by satellite competitors.

With HeadendWare application servers located anywhere on the operator's network or outsourced, an operator's entire digital subscriber base can interact with robust multimedia applications developed with standard PC, Web and Java tools using existing set-top boxes and remote controls. HeadendWare supports the latest versions of HTML, JavaScript, Java, Windows Media Player(R), Flash(R), RealPlayer(R) and QuickTime(R), enabling network operators to provide subscribers with a limitless array of content and applications.

About ICTV(TM)

ICTV(TM) provides enabling infrastructure for the delivery of new television services to digital cable subscribers. The company offers a solutions-oriented approach to new television services that combines the standards-based technology of ICTV's HeadendWare platform with a portfolio of branded iTV applications that can be deployed today. The solution-based approach offers operators one of the highest returns on bandwidth and incremental capital of the iTV services available today. Strategic investors include Adelphia, Liberty Media, Motorola, OpenTV, Cox Communications and Lauder Partners.

Based in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, with offices in Baltimore and the United Kingdom, the company has been issued 23 patents and has numerous patents pending, ensuring protection of its unique and innovative television services solution. ICTV is a member of the Motorola Horizon and Scientific-Atlanta CreativEdge Developer's Programs. For more information, visit http://www.ictv.com/.

HeadendWare is a registered trademark and ICTV is a trademark of ICTV, Inc.

Source: ICTV Inc.

CONTACT: Paul Schneider, PSPR, Inc., +1-215-702-9784, pspr@att.net, for ICTV Inc.

Web site: http://www.ictv.com/

------- Profile: Ent