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NDS Brings Leading Global Players and Taiwan Consumer Electronics Industry Together at a Conference to Explore International Opportunities
Highlights:
- NDS to host a group of leading global operators and partners
at the NDS International Consumer Electronics Industry Conference
on October 14, 2008 in Taipei
- Conference to discuss global markets and export opportunities
for the Taiwan consumer electronics industry
- International industry leaders Kaon Media, STMicroelectronics
and HCN, and Taiwan’s premier industry association,
the Taiwan Digital TV Committee (DTVC), to share benefits
of partnering with NDS
- NDS to showcase its industry-leading portfolio of next
generation solutions for convergence
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – October 14, 2008 — NDS,
the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV,
has invited leaders from the global consumer electronics and
pay-TV industry to share strategies for international partnership
with the Taiwan Consumer Electronics industry. International
industry leaders are to be joined by Secretary General Hsieh
Kuang Cheng of the Taiwan Digital TV Committee (DTVC).
NDS is actively searching for ‘best in class’ partners
in the Asia Pacific region to co-operatively develop leading
edge CE products to meet the demand in the growing global pay-TV
market. Furthermore, to this end, NDS seeks to establish stronger
ties with the Taiwanese consumer electronics industry. To facilitate
these endeavours, and to discuss international opportunities
for companies in the Taiwanese CE industry, NDS is hosting the
NDS International Consumer Electronics Industry Conference on
14 October, 2008 in Taipei
Mr. Bong-Mu Lee, Project Director and Head of the Convergence
Business Group of Kaon Media, and one of the honoured speakers
at the Conference, commented, “In partnering with NDS, we
were introduced to new customers located around the world and
expanded our business overseas.” Kaon Media is one of the
10 largest set top box manufacturers in the world.
“Taiwanese CE vendors in partnership with NDS can achieve
significant growth in the global market while offering TV viewers
in Taiwan the best possible viewing experience,” said Chris
Yap, Vice President, Business Development, NDS Asia Pacific. “Taiwanese
manufacturers are leaders in the markets in which they operate,
and many have become major global providers of advanced technologies.
NDS looks forward to developing stronger ties with Taiwan’s
CE manufacturers and pay-TV operators,” he added.
NDS is the worldwide market leader in content protection and
DRM solutions for digital pay-TV. At the heart of NDS’ solutions
portfolio is VideoGuard® the internationally trusted technology
that currently protects content in over 90.3 million digital
devices around the world. NDS’ industry leading solutions
allow operators to securely deliver digital TV content anywhere,
anytime to any device. Over 60 pay-TV platforms of all sizes
rely on NDS to secure their valuable TV content. safeguarding
over $35 billion USD in customer revenues.
Kuang-Cheng Hsieh, Secretary General of the Taiwan DTVC said, “In
order for the Taiwan digital pay-TV industry to grow, highly
robust digital content protection is absolutely essential to
ensure that operators get all the revenues to which they are
entitled, to protect the rights of content owners and producers,
and to ensure that consumers get the full value of their pay-TV
subscription fees.”
NDS’ market leading solutions on display at the International
Consumer Electronics Industry Conference will shed light on the
latest trends in what consumers want from their TV experience
today and will present a glimpse into the next generation of
content protection, navigation and personalised content management
in a world where people want the freedom to choose what content
they want to watch, as well as where and when they want to watch
it.
About NDS
NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: 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.
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