Flexible customized solutions for the cable
market. Our partnership with industry
leaders in STBs, compression, VOD and subscriber
management systems helps us provide open systems
that save you money and better fit your business
needs. That means you get the freedom to choose from
the very best technology, support and features that
are right for your business.
NDS digital cable solutions include special enhancements
designed specifically for the Asia Pacific markets:
- Designed specifically for the Chinese
and Indian markets, VideoGuard™ Express is an
entry level conditional access solution designed for
smaller operators looking to introduce digital pay-TV
services quickly and at an attractive price.
- MediaHighway middleware
includes a font rendering engine. This
reduces the burden on STB memory and leads to lower
costs-particularly important for markets such as
China or Korea, where complex character sets are
used.
- NDS EPGs support multiple
languages including English, Bahassa,
Korean, simplified and traditional Chinese.
- The Multiple TV Home feature
enables subscribers to have several TVs in the
home receiving cable services. This
solution designates a master STB in the home that
periodically authorizes secondary STBs to continue
providing TV services. This ensures that STBs are
not re-distributed outside the home and protects
the operator's business
Low-cost STBs. NDS
drives down the cost of set-top boxes by licensing
our technology to many local manufacturers in the Asian
market, instead of producing the boxes ourselves. The
NDS Certified Partners Program provides integration
tools and support services that help STB vendors implement
VideoGuard conditional access into their STBs quickly
and seamlessly. As a cable operator you also benefit
from lower prices and improved features that STB vendors
introduce due to the competitive environment. This,
in turn, gives you more choice and enables you to offer
the latest TV services to attract new subscribers.
Industry leading security. NDS
is committed to providing the best solutions to help
your business succeed. However, with success comes
an additional threat that can undermine your business-piracy.
NDS VideoGuard® conditional access not only keeps
content more secure, it also keeps subscribers honest.
NDS fights piracy on many fronts. NDS
offers two approaches for content protection on cable
networks - smart card or server based security. Both
products keep you one step ahead of anyone planning
to attack your system. Having robust content protection
enables you to get the best content and gain a definite
competitive advantage when attracting and keeping subscribers.
Interactive TV services. NDS has developed
interactive applications for some of the industry's
most successful TV operators and channels. These
services have not only attracted new subscribers
to the platform, but also generate additional revenue
through charging for the use of the operator's infrastructure.
Games are a proven way to attract subscribers and extend
the operator’s, channels or program’s brand.
Games can also be used for contests or to keep viewers
engaged. That’s
why Games from NDS are so popular with platforms like
Cablevision, BSkyB, Bell ExpresVu, DirecTV Latin America,
Austar, and Foxtel as well as leading TV channels and
content providers. For a lower cost entry point to interactivity,
NDS offers MediaHighway middleware that enables advanced
applications on low specification set-top boxes. Based
on HTML and Java Script, MediaHighway Core offers a standards-based
development environment to lower the barriers to interactive
application development.
VOD and DVR services. NDS
is in a unique position to provide VOD and
digital video recorder solutions to cable operators.
NDS provides robust encryption technologies for VOD content
delivery and was the first to deploy an encrypted SVOD
(subscription VOD) service with Cablevision.
XTV™,
the world’s most popular DVR lets your viewers
watch what they want when they want by cost-effectively
adding local storage to a set-top box. XTV provides enhanced
DVR functions such as personalization, off-disk VOD,
sophisticated interactive applications and a service
that integrates with your current broadcast headend and
EPG.