SVP Alliance Adds Notable Industry Players to Its Growing Membership Roster.

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Eight New Members Join the Digital Content Protection Group, Including AMD, Amstrad, Philips Electronics, Cablevision, Pace Micro Technology, Sky Italia, Texas Instruments, and Yes

The Secure Video Processor (SVP) Alliance announced today that eight new companies have joined the content protection group, bringing the total to 22 and further strengthening the organization's influence in the important realm of digital content protection. The SVP initiative is particularly significant to the cable industry since it ensures the secure distribution of content throughout the cable infrastructure, paving the way for the broad delivery of valuable premium content in home network configurations, while complying with plug-and-play requirements.

The SVP Alliance is joined by eight new members including:

--AMD, a worldwide producer of microprocessors, Flash memory devices, and silicon-based solutions for communications and computer industries;

--Amstrad, a manufacturer and supplier of innovative consumer electronics products, including multi-network set top boxes;

--Cablevision, a leading media, entertainment and telecommunications company;

--Pace Micro Technology, a leader in innovative set-top box solutions;

--Philips, one of the world's largest electronics companies;

--Sky Italia, the Italian pay-TV service offering 150 television, audio, interactive, and pay-per-view channels;

--Texas Instruments, a provider of digital signal processing and analog technologies;

--Yes, the Israeli satellite services company.

"It is important to us to understand the content protection standards that will be required to enable various forms of content distribution within the digital home," said Wilt Hildenbrand, Cablevision's executive vice president, engineering and technology. "We at Cablevision believe that SVP is one of the compelling solutions that will enable us to package premium content for our subscribers to view at their convenience, while ensuring its continued protection from unauthorized use."

"At Pace we actively support new initiatives which enable cable operators to operate effectively and profitably," said David Gillies, Director of Technology, Pace Micro Technology. "The SVP Alliance is a prime example of a group setting the standard that will enable pay-TV operators to distribute content safely through our set top boxes and other consumer devices to provide consumers with the content they want and TV operators with the secure revenue stream they need. Since SVP interoperates easily with other conditional access and digital rights management solutions, this enhances its value to the industry."

"Philips is committed to actively support open-standard-based content protection schemes and DRM solutions, in particularly OMA," said Lucas Covers, Senior Vice-President of Philips' set-top box business, "The SVP system is targeted at content protection for broadcast applications. If the market takes off, SVP will offer a solution to distribute pay-TV content from our set-top boxes to a wide range of consumer products."

Demonstrations of the SVP technology will be shown at NCTA, including an end-to-end integrated home networking solution, and a demo showing how content can be downloaded to a portable media player -- while protecting content owners' rights using SVP. The SVP booth is located in the North Hall D, Booth # 6455.

The SVP solution, based on Secure Video Processor hardware, allows premium content to be more broadly distributed, since the technology protects it from unauthorized use. Network operators using SVP-compliant devices, for example, can use the technology to empower consumers to receive, store and render secured content in home networks and on consumer devices - such as digital televisions, set-top boxes, DVRs, and portable media devices.

Any standard video processing chip design can be made SVP-enabled with a small amount of additional circuitry, and can then be embedded in any consumer electronics device. Consumer electronic devices using the SVP technology will be available later this year.

About The SVP Alliance

The Secure Video Processor (SVP) Alliance is a group of media and technology industry leaders committed to the widespread use of digital content on consumer devices. The objective of the SVP Alliance is to adopt, use and promote the SVP standard and develop interoperability with other DRM and content protection solutions. By ensuring its broad adoption, and proposing its specification to relevant standards and other industry bodies, SVP will become a leading international standard for content protection. The SVP Alliance is a not-for-profit organization supported by the following companies: ADB, AMD, Amstrad, Broadcom, BSkyB, Caton Overseas, Cablevision, Conexant, DIRECTV, Humax, LG Electronics, Macrovision, NDS, NEC, Pace Micro Technology, Philips, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Thomson, Twentieth Century Fox and Widevine(R) Technologies.