SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign
Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16
or 15d-16 of
The Securities Exchange Act
of 1934
For the month of April, 2009
OPTIBASE LTD
(Translation of
registrant’s name into English)
2 Gav Yam Center, 7
Shenkar Street, Herzliya 46120, Israel
(Address of principal
executive offices)
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Attached
hereto and incorporated by reference herein is a copy of the press release
Optibase
EZ TV System Enhances Its Support of
Amino IP Set-Top-Boxes
This report is hereby incorporated by reference to the Registration Statements on Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-10840;333-12814;333-13186;333-91650;333-122128;333-137644;333-139688) of the Company.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| OPTIBASE LTD. (Registrant) By: /s/ Amir Philips —————————————— Amir Philips Chief Financial Officer |
Date: April 14, 2009
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PR contacts for Optibase: Talia Rimon, Director of Marketing Communications, Optibase 011-972-9-9709-125 taliar@optibase.com |
| Marybeth Csaby, KCSA for Optibase +1-212-896-1236 mcsaby@kcsa.com | |
| PR contacts for Amino: Kate Cartmell, Amino Communications Buckingway Business Park, Anderson Road, Swavesey, Cambridge, CB24 4UQ. T: +44 (0) 1954 234 100 kcartmell@aminocom.com www.aminocom.com | |
| Sebastian Mathews, FD Holborn Gate, 26 Southampton Buildings, London, WC2A 1PB T: 020 7269 7158 sebastian.mathews@fd.com |
OPTIBASE EZ TV SYSTEM ENHANCES ITS SUPPORT OF AMINO IP SET-TOP-BOXES
Mountain View, California, April 14, 2009 – Optibase (NASDAQ:OBAS), a leading provider of video solutions and Amino Communications (AIM:AMO), the world leading IPTV entertainment solutions provider, today announced they have partnered to integrate the Optibase EZ TV System with Amino AmiNET™ set-top boxes (STB). With the newly enhanced EZ TV STB Module, users can access the system’s live or on-demand content on standard-definition or high-definition TVs and plasma screens in addition to PCs and Mac systems.
EZ TV System is an integrated video delivery portal that allows distribution of real-time and on-demand content over existing enterprise IP infrastructures. EZ TV Player provides PC users with an enhanced, interactive web-based viewing experience by supporting multi-format video feeds in a mosaic view of 1, 4, 9 or 16 simultaneous streams.
The integration of EZ TV System with Amino AmiNET STBs allows users to access the entire live and on-demand video content lineup managed by EZ TV on their television screen. With EZ TV STB Module, users can browse video content, choose channels, access information, control volume, and recall channels, by using the Amino STB remote control. In addition, the integration includes automatic database synchronization that ensures that channel guide and content are constantly up to date.
Amino AmiNET STBs offer a cost effective and elegant solution with a state-of-the art feature set. With an Ethernet input and highly flexible audio and video outputs, AmiNET125 and AmiNET130 provide a powerful means of delivering sophisticated interactive digital television including multicast, on demand video and Internet access.
“With the integration of the Amino STB interface, EZ TV is the most comprehensive enterprise video portal available today. Users can control the content either on HD TV screens or on their PCs and yet still maintain centralized management,” said Nir Shalev, VP Marketing at Optibase. “Amino was the obvious partner choice for us. The AmiNET STBs are highly reliable products that provide our customers with comprehensive functionality including full format support from MPEG-2 SD to H.264 HD.”
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“Enterprise IPTV is a key market for Amino and we work closely with partners to ensure our products are well suited for this application”, added Nick Sutherland, Head of Product Management, Amino. “High reliability, small form factor and optimised performance coupled with a simple development environment have enabled Optibase to rapidly create an exciting solution across the AmiNET product range”.
EZ TV STB Module will be demonstrated at NAB Show, April 20-23, 2009.
Visit Optibase on stand SU6906 and Amino on stand C2054 at NAB Show 2009.
About Amino
Communications
Amino specialises in digital entertainment
solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution.
Amino’s range of
software and set-top box systems can be tailored for telecom, broadcast and hospitality
firms to offer highly scalable and targeted services. The award-winning AmiNET™ and
Mood range is used by leading service operators in over 80 countries.
Amino’s ‘AssetHouse’ technology opens the door for content producers, telecoms companies, broadcasters and web TV firms to maximise opportunities through better services, targeted content and greater choice. It takes IPTV to the next level by allowing clients such as BT Vision to think like retailers and package, personalise and refresh extra revenue-generating services to viewers
Amino Communications and AssetHouse
are wholly owned subsidiaries of Amino Technologies PLC. Listed on the London Stock
Exchange AIM, symbol AMO. Amino’s HQ is based near Cambridge, UK, with
offices in the US, China and Sweden.
www.aminocom.com
About Optibase
Optibase provides video over IP
solutions, specializing in video encoding, decoding and streaming for federal and state
government agencies, Telco operators, enterprise organizations and the world’s
leading broadcast service providers. With a collection of open, standards-based products,
Optibase enables its customers to take full advantage of video distribution over their IP
network, ensuring superb video quality in a scale of bit-rates for simple and effective
video streaming to desktops, STBs and VOD applications. For further information, please
visit www.optibase.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning our marketing and operations plans. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are made based on management’s current expectations which involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, risks related to the video technologies market in general, and the evolving IPTV market in particular, competition, our ability to manage growth and expansion, general economic conditions and other risk factors. For a more detailed discussion of these and other risks that may cause actual results to differ from the forward looking statements in this news release, please refer to Optibase’s most recent annual report on Form 20-F. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements made herein.
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