NDS Opens Mumbai Office, Demonstrating Further Commitment to Indian Pay-TV Market.MUMBAI, India -- NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services (Nasdaq:NNDS NNDS Norsk Nettverk for Down Syndrom (Norway) ) (Brussels:NNDS): Highlights * NDS further strengthens its presence in the Indian broadcasting technology and services market * NDS customers lead the way in enhancing the TV user experience * NDS Bangalore R&D Centre provides core technologies for Indian digital pay-TV services NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that the company is increasing its presence in India with the opening of a dedicated sales and support operation in Mumbai. Commenting in Mumbai, 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. , Chairman 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. of 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 said, "NDS has had a research and development facility in Bangalore for over five years, which has grown to nearly 600 employees. NDS Bangalore is pivotal in our ability to roll out state-of-the-art technologies, such as advanced middleware solutions, digital video recorders (DVR (1) (Digital Video Recorder) A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR typically supports 4, 8 or 16 separate camera channels. ) and interactive TV applications, to some of the world's largest broadcasters. The opening of the NDS Mumbai office, is in recognition that the Indian market itself is ready for the wide-scale deployment of digital pay-TV." NDS end-to-end systems currently support the Tata Sky Tata Sky is a DTH satellite television provider in India. It is a joint venture between the Tata Group, that owns 80% and STAR TV that owns a 20% stake. Tata Sky was incorporated in 2004 but 'Tata Sky was launched' in August 2006. direct to home (DTH (Direct-To-Home) Typically refers to satellite TV broadcasting directly to a dish antenna on the roof of a house. See DBS. ) service and Hathway Cable and Datacom digital cable TV operations. Tata Sky, the 80:20 joint venture between Tata and News Corporation's STAR, launched a Ku-band DTH service across India in August 2006. NDS end-to-end systems are deployed by Tata Sky to offer an unprecedented range of digital and interactive TV services that give their subscribers greater choice, control and convenience. The NDS systems deployed include NDS VideoGuard[R] conditional access solution (CAS), MediaHighway[TM] middleware, and a bouquet of interactive TV applications including the electronic programme guide (EPG (Electronic Program Guide) An online listing of TV or other programs. Periodically, EPGs are downloaded into set-top boxes so that viewers can preview offerings by time or category and set reminders. ) for viewer navigation. One of the fastest-growing pay-TV services in all of Asia, Tata Sky now has over 250,000 subscribers. Hathway Cable and Datacom selected NDS end-to-end systems in 2003 to power their digital cable operations. NDS provided a customized electronic programme guide for the service. Hathway has become the most successful Multiple System Operator (MSO (1) (Multiple System Operator) Typically refers to a cable TV organization that owns more than one cable system, but it may refer to an operator of only one system. ) in rolling out digital cable TV services in India. Now reaching two million viewers, Hathway is one of the largest MSOs in the country. Hathway is the leader in digital cable TV services in the cities of Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. Overall, Hathway provides quality cable TV services in 13 cities across India with fibre optic backbone deployed across the networks and state-of-the-art distribution infrastructure. Indian cable operators are preparing for the imminent deadline by which time they are required to implement conditional access, which will be a major milestone for the cable TV market. The government has issued notification that the three metropolitan areas of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata must be fully "CAS delivered" by 31 December, 2006. The High Court of Delhi stipulated that from 31 December, 2006, "it shall be mandatory for every cable operator to transmit or re-transmit programmes of every pay channel through an addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be system in areas notified by the government." For the past 15 years, NDS VideoGuard[R] CAS has established an unparalleled worldwide reputation in secure pay-TV delivery. VideoGuard is the world's most deployed conditional access technology (CAS) and is active in 66.6 million smart cards, on 42 TV platforms, in 25 countries, with services broadcast in 15 languages. About NDS NDS Group plc (Nasdaq:NNDS) (Brussels: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. # # # Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-looking Statements This document contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the 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 are based on management's views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance as of the time the statements are made. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in global economic, business, competitive market and regulatory factors. More detailed information about these and other factors that could affect future results is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The "forward-looking statements" included in this document are made only as of the date of this document and we do not have any obligation to publicly update any "forward-looking statements" to reflect subsequent events or circumstance, except as required by law. |
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