Chongqing Cable to Deliver Digital TV with NDS Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers HONG KONG Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. & BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003 Highlights: -- China's largest single hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) network, with 3.5 million subscribers, to launch digital and interactive TV services with NDS technology -- NDS delivers full end-to-end solutions capability, leading conditional access technology and an electronic program guide developed by NDS Beijing engineers -- NDS strengthens position within China Hong Kong and Beijing, CHINA - January 28, 2003 - NDS Group NDS Group plc is a DRM and conditional access firm. It is listed on the NASDAQ (symbol NNDS), but its major shareholder is News Corporation. The company is headquartered in West Drayton (near Heathrow), United Kingdom. The CEO of NDS is Abe Peled. plc, a News Corporation company and a leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that Chongqing Broadcast and TV Network Transmission Co Ltd, a cable television provider for China's fourth largest city, has selected NDS's end-to-end digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analogue waveforms to carry broadcasts over television channels or assigned radio frequency bands. It is becoming increasingly popular for television usage (especially satellite television) but is having a solutions to migrate from analog to digital cable TV broadcasting. The new digital system will meet the needs of Chongqing Cable's rapidly expanding network, already China's largest single HFC network (Hybrid Fiber-Coax network) A communications network (typically a cable TV network) that uses a combination of optical fibers and coaxial cable. The fiber provides the high-speed backbone, and the coax is used to connect end users to the backbone. - forecast to grow from the current 3.5 million cable TV subscribers to six million over the next five years. "The launch of digital cable TV is a major component of the establishment of the Chongqing information infrastructure, and it is also one of the Eight Grand Projects of the 2003 Annual Plan of Chongqing municipality", said Mr Du Hongzhi, General Manager of Chongqing Broadcast and TV Network Transmission Co Ltd. "It is a good job done by the municipality for its citizens and it will not only enhance the development of Chongqing broadcasting and the TV industry, but it will also boost the future course of information and digital delivery in Chongqing." By deploying NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services systems, Chongqing Cable TV will offer viewers over 80 channels with basic and premier tiers. New interactive TV services planned include an interactive electronic program guide, stock information service, sports, weather reports, news reports and audio broadcasting. CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television , China's national broadcaster, and the neighboring Sichuan Provincial Network also use NDS end-to-end broadcast solutions. "Chongqing is the most populous municipality under the Central Government of China with a unique position in driving the development of the western region. We are very honored to be selected by Chongqing Cable TV to provide them with a proven end-to-end digital broadcasting solution," said Mr Gary Zhou, General Manager of NDS China. "Digital interactive TV will grow rapidly in China, and NDS is proud to participate in its development." Mr Du went on to add: "After an extensive evaluation, we finally chose NDS as our technology partner and to deploy its end-to-end digital pay TV technology solutions within our network. I believe that the partnership with NDS will speed up the development of Chongqing digital TV services, and it will also enable us to broadcast more digital programming and to provide more services to fulfill the ever-increasing demands of the over 30 million people in Chongqing," said Mr Du. The NDS end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. deployed by Chongqing Cable TV includes Open VideoGuard(TM) conditional access Conditional Access (acronymized CA) is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content. The term is commonly used in relation to digital television systems, most notably satellite television. , NDS Core(TM) middleware, StreamServer(TM) digital broadcasting management system, Scheduler(TM) programming playout system, iTV interactive platform with call back support as well as Chongqing Cable TV's interactive electronic program guide being developed by NDS Beijing engineers. NDS VideoGuard is one of only two foreign conditional access systems A conditional access system (CAS) is a system by which electronic transmission of digital media, especially satellite television signals through cable, is limited to subscribed clients. This is called conditional access. recommended by the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV (SARFT SARFT State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (China) ). About Chongqing Chongqing municipality is one of only four municipalities in China that reports directly to the central government, rather than provincial government. Chongqing Cable TV network covers the entire 40 districts and counties of Chongqing municipality. There are 3.5 million cable TV subscribers to Chongqing Cable TV, 200,000 of which already have access to the company's two-way broadcasting network. President Jiang Zemin Jiang Zemin (jyäng` zŭ`mĭn`), 1926–, Chinese government official, general secretary of the Chinese Communist party (1989–2002) and president of China (1993–2003), b. Jiangsu prov. once said of Chongqing: 'We must exert efforts to build Chongqing into the economic center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River Yangtze River Chinese Chang Jiang or Ch'ang Chiang River, China. Rising in the Tanggula Mountains in west-central China, it flows southeast before turning northeast and then generally east across south-central and east-central China to the East China ". About NDS NDS Group plc (NASDAQ/NASDAQ Europe:NNDS NNDS Norsk Nettverk for Down Syndrom (Norway) ) is a leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay-TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS. Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements The statements contained in this release which are not historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These statements relate to the plans, projections or future performance of NDS, which involve certain risks and uncertainties, including risk of market acceptance, the effect of economic conditions, possible regulatory changes, technological developments, the impact of competitive pricing and the ability of NDS and its commercial partners to develop systems and solutions which meet the needs of the broadcasting industry in a timely and cost-efficient manner, as well as certain other risks and uncertainties which are detailed in NDS' filings with the SEC. Company or product names have been used for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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