NDS -- The Interactivity Leader at NAB 2000; NDS Value@TV Powers Interactive Advertising, Home Shopping and Interactive Programming.Business/Entertainment Editors & High-Tech Writers NAB Preview Booth No. S4138, Sands Convention Center LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 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 (NASDAQ/EASDAQ:NNDS NNDS Norsk Nettverk for Down Syndrom (Norway) ), a News Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) ) company and a leading provider of interactive applications for digital television and conditional access systems to more than 14 million digital TV subscribers, Wednesday announced that at NAB 2000 it is showing its powerful suite of interactive TV software applications. NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services is rapidly being recognized as one of the world's leading providers of interactive TV solutions, being one of the few companies to have delivered and deployed real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. . "Interactivity will be the hot topic at NAB 2000 and we believe that our solutions will be a hot ticket at the show. Our track record of delivering secure interactive TV systems is second to none, and our Value@TV(TM) suite of middleware-independent interactive applications is one of the most powerful and flexible in the industry," said Dr. Abe Peled Dr. Abe Peled is an Israeli businessman. Education Dr. Peled graduated from the Technion with BSc, and MSc in 1967 and 1971 respectively, both degrees in Electrical Engineering. , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , NDS. "Interactivity will become an increasingly important answer to the challenges of simultaneously reducing churn, gaining new customers and increasing revenue per customer. The Value@TV suite ensures that our customers get on-air efficiently and profit from home shopping, home banking, interactive advertising, interactive programming and other interactive applications." NDS has supplied BSkyB with its Sky SportsActive feature -- which was successfully launched by Sky Digital in the U.K. in August 1999 and is currently available to more than 2 million households. NDS technology authenticates and secures interactive TV electronic commerce on Open Interactive, a joint venture of BSkyB, BT, HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) and Matsushita, which was successfully launched in October 1999. NDS has recently signed contracts with and is developing interactive TV applications for QVC QVC Quality Value Convenience QVC Question Valid Command UK The Shopping Channel, Flextech Scene One Channel and other broadcasters. NDS' Value@TV suite of interactive applications allows broadcasters to implement: Interactive Advertising Interactive ads (iADs(TM)) allow advertisers to increase the power of their advertising through interactivity by allowing targeted addressing of the viewer through the smart card in the set-top box. Interactive Transactions The high security of Value@TV combined with NDS VideoGuard(R) allows broadcasters to introduce services such as home banking and home shopping. With Value@TV, the broadcaster earns revenue from each transaction and micro-payments can be economically processed. Interactive Information Services See Information Systems. Value@TV turns the TV into a gateway for information services and turns a broadcaster into an on-air portal. Potential information services include personalized weather reports and traffic bulletins. Interactive Direct Marketing Value@TV gives a digital broadcaster a powerful direct marketing channel to promote TV programming, as well as other companies' goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . "We believe that interactive solutions must be incredibly easy to use and give consumers what they want, when they want it. We are achieving these goals with our interactive implementation for BSkyB SportsActive and our developments with QVC UK, which technically are very complex and sophisticated applications and yet to the consumer combine power with ease of operation. "These projects show that our software systems and implementation capabilities can deliver world leading interactive TV -- now," said Richard Cross, NDS, VP of Business Applications and Consulting Group. About NDS NDS Group plc (NASDAQ/EASDAQ:NNDS) is a leading supplier of conditional access software and interactive systems to digital Pay-TV broadcasters and set-top box manufacturers, offering open and flexible software solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to televisions and personal computers. NDS is also a leading provider of broadcast control software that is essential for managing and operating a digital television broadcasting network. The company supplies leading technology, products and services to enable broadcasters and content providers to profit from digital television and associated interactive services. NDS also supplies software to secure and deliver Internet content via data broadcasting and simplify e-commerce transactions. The NDS range of systems and technology is complemented by a wide range of services, including consulting, systems design and integration, support and maintenance. NDS customers include leading Pay-TV broadcasters worldwide. In the digital satellite television market, NDS customers include DIRECTV in the U.S.; BSkyB in the U.K.; Galaxy, Sky Latin America SKY Latin America refers to two closely related pay-TV providers, one based in Mexico, the other in Brazil. The Mexican company was founded in mid-1996, a joint venture between British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), News Corporation, Liberty Media and Grupo Televisa. , NetSat and Innova in Latin America; and DIRECTV Japan, STAR TV, Shinawatra, Telstra, Foxtel and Sky New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. in the Asia-Pacific region. More than 15 million viewers of pay television are currently using elements of NDS supplied technology. NDS' customers provide services, using its conditional access systems and smart cards, to more than 50% of the world's digital satellite subscriber base. In the emerging digital cable market, NDS customers include Cablevision in the U.S., Matav in Israel, NTC NTC Notice NTC National Training Center NTC National Telecommunications Commission NTC National Transport Commission (Australia) NTC Negative Temperature Coefficient NTC Naval Training Center in China and Madritel in Spain. NDS, with headquarters in the United Kingdom, and offices worldwide, employs more than 1,000 people and continues to make a major commitment to R&D, with more than 400 employees dedicated to pioneering development work at research centers in Israel and the U.K. NDS is on the World Wide Web at http://www.nds.com. NDS' largest shareholder is News Corp. (NYSE:NWS), a global media and entertainment company. 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. |
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