NDS Mobile Content Protection Integrates with Quantum’s Pocket TV for Secure Mobile Viewing
Highlights:
- World market leading VideoGuard® content protection technology
integrated with
innovative portable media player (PMP) for viewing content
on the move
- Provides new revenue generating opportunities for pay-TV
broadcasters and mobile
network operators
- Integrated system to be showcased on NDS Booth AV100 at Mobile
World Congress
in Barcelona
LONDON, UK – February 5, 2008 – NDS,
the leading provider of technology solutions
for digital pay-TV, and Quantum, the premier supplier of innovative
mobile multimedia
devices and software, today announced the integration of NDS’ VideoGuard
Mobile™
content protection system for DVB-H with Quantum’s Pocket
TV portable media player
(PMP). The integrated system will be showcased on the NDS booth
at the Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, February 11-14.
“The integration of VideoGuard Mobile with Quantum’s
Pocket TV brings us significantly
closer to the goal of providing high-quality broadcast TV to
any device and viewable at
any time,” said NDS Chief Marketing Officer Nigel Smith. “With
the superior content
protection and sophisticated business management features offered
by VideoGuard
Mobile, mobile TV operators will be able to offer a groundbreaking
video experience to
users of the Pocket TV.”
Quantum CEO Stefano Martini said: “We are delighted
to have accomplished the
integration of NDS’ VideoGuard Mobile content protection
system into our flagship Pocket
TV portable media player. This will provide our service provider
customers with enhanced
content protection capabilities in a compelling, easy-to-use
device that delivers the
ultimate mobile TV and video experience to consumers.”
The Pocket TV integrated with NDS’ VideoGuard Mobile content
protection enables pay-TV broadcasters and mobile network operators
to offer their subscribers personal and
innovative video services, whether indoors or outdoors. The Pocket
TV can play both
encrypted broadcast video and downloaded video stored securely
on a memory card.
NDS market-leading content protection based on VideoGuard, now
securing over 82.7
million digital TV devices worldwide, ensures that content rights
are maintained in both
cases.
The DVB-H signal carried by the integrated product originates
in NDS’ unique Unified
Headend™ (UHE) architecture, which provides a single point
of business management
for all video broadcasts, irrespective of the delivery networks
or the rendering devices.
The UHE convergence platform enables operators and broadcasters
to centralize the
administration of subscriptions, purchasing, transactions, promotions
and a wide range of
other business functions.
The integrated Quantum Pocket TV with NDS VideoGuard Mobile
will be showcased
February 11 to 14 at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona,
at the NDS stand at
AV100 Avenue.
About Quantum
Quantum is a private company headquartered in Milan, Italy, that
develops innovative
multimedia devices and software for the rapidly expanding mobile
entertainment market.
It has a wide product range that enables service providers and
broadcasters to securely
deliver the ultimate mobile TV and video experience to consumers
anytime, anywhere
seamlessly. For more information, please visit www.qtm.it
About NDS
NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of
News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology
and services to digital pay-television platform operators and
content providers. See www.nds.com for
more information about NDS.
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