Will content consumption ever be the same? Broadband, the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and digital media enable subscribers to connect and enjoy more content at home or on the go. Your subscribers demand nothing less. They want to be able to enjoy content anywhere, anytime on any device. Operators need to ensure that content is easily accessible on more devices in order to generate greater revenues while ensuring customer satisfaction.

NDS has developed Home Networking solutions that offer more services and enable subscribers to share content across screens while protecting content owners’ rights and ensuring that content cannot be duplicated without authorization. NDS also ensures the existence of consistent business models across devices. This enables customers to purchase content once even if they consume it on different devices.

NDS Home Networking secures and enables your role as your subscribers’ main entertainment and content supplier. It allows you to distribute and share your services to multiple devices anywhere in the home. Home Networking also allows subscribers to use the set-top box to view personal content stored on their DVR or export content from the DVR to a variety of CE devices.

NDS Home Networking solutions allow you to offer greater flexibility in the way customers consume content while enforcing content owner rights and preventing unlawful content copying or distribution. The NDS solution is based on a standard DLNA protocol, for facilitating communication with CE devices. Using the NDS home networking solutions, subscribers can enjoy the following benefits:

• Multi-room viewing. Families can watch programs that are stored on the DVR in the living room. If their children bring friends home, parents can pause the program and continue watching in another room. This is a true multi-room viewing experience.
• Replacing need for Media Extenders. Watch the latest vacation pictures or home videos stored on your PC from your set-top box and main TV.
• True value-added solution. Export your favorite DVR recordings to companion devices (such as tablets), and watch them anywhere.
• Use your dedicated application on companion devices. Communicate with the STB inside the home to get enriched content that is showed on the STB and to manage your recordings even while you are away from home.
• Remove the hard drive. If the operator’s service uses an external hard drive (for DVR expansion or DVR Lite) subscribers can securely remove the hard drive and watch the content on other devices—such as a PC—with NDS DRM.
• Control exactly how and when content is consumed. Limit the number of days, number of copies allowed or number of playbacks. Generate the most out of your content with NDS VideoGuard® solutions.

NDS home networking solution helps the operator’s DVR evolve into the main entertainment hub in the home, and eliminates the need for having more than one expensive DVR box inside the home.

Coupled with NDS Unified Headend™, you will be able to enrich your service offering and simplify content consumption across different platforms. The NDS Unified Headend centralizes content DRM in a single system. This reduces overhead while making it simpler for the operator—and the user—to add services and devices.

The NDS Home Networking solution removes the boundaries within your customer’s home and encourages them to use and pay for more content, while maintaining the content owner’s rights.