Entry Level, End-to-End Pay-TV Solution
VideoGuard Express™ is an all-in-one end-to-end solution designed for entry-level satellite or cable operators who want to introduce digital pay-TV services quickly and cost-effectively. It combines the best that NDS has to offer: VideoGuard® CA, MediaHighway® set-top box software, and the NDS Guide, a full seven-day EPG.
VideoGuard Express is unique because it provides small operators with a pay-TV solution that meets their current needs as well as the modularity to support future service upgrades including DVR, VOD, impulse pay-per-view, two-way interactivity, and audience measurement.
VideoGuard Express gets you on air faster, thanks to STB pre-integration, enabling you to get to market and generate revenues sooner than ever.
Standard VideoGuard Express features include:
- Conditional access entitlement and encryption
- Secure broadcast of up to 250 TV and 100 radio services
- Use of up to six DVB bouquets
- MediaHighway set-top box software & EPG
- Standard interfaces with many DVB Simulcrypt compliant vendors for compression
- NDS Scheduler Express for event scheduling
- MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) support
- SD and HD services
- Smart card pairing and fingerprinting
- Control word encryption to prevent card sharing
- Variable subscription TV packages including Pay-Per-View, Token PPV, and Near VOD
- DVB broadcast management, including DVB SI generation and Access Criteria Management
- Geographical addressing
- Broadcast mail, enabling messaging to individual subscribers or groups of subscribers
- Parental rating, password protection