NDS VideoGuard® CA/DRM is the pay-TV industry’s most advanced
suite of Conditional Access (CA) and Digital Rights Management (DRM)
solutions. It protects your branded service and ensures you have a
wide range of business models that allow you to flexibly package and
market content to your subscribers.
For more than 20 years the world’s leading pay-TV
operators have chosen NDS VideoGuard because of its
zero-tolerance for piracy and effective operational
security, and because it has the widest feature set designed to help
you develop your business. VideoGuard security can be implemented
using smart cards, and for two-way cable and IPTV networks—non-smart
card solutions. VideoGuard also offers security solutions in various
devices including PCs, mobile handsets, removable media and portable
media players (PMPs).
VideoGuard is deployed on more than 104 million devices. NDS pioneered
the use of smart cards in set-top boxes (STBs), ensuring that operators
could upgrade STB functionality and security without upgrading
expensive hardware.
VideoGuard is the most robust CA solution on the market.
It protects both the branded
service and the digital content, it enables pay-TV platforms to flourish.
It combines robust security with an impressive variety of business-enabling
functions like Video-on-Demand (VOD), Pay-per-View (PPV), Pre-Pay,
etc.
NDS has unique security designs to keep your business secure and has an
operational security team to track and uncover and prevent illegal
activities before they threaten your business.
What do consumers want from their pay-TV service? Choice
and flexibility to watch content they choose anywhere and anytime
they choose to.
NDS VideoGuard delivers the freedom to watch TV live or on-demand
with VOD- or DVR-enhanced services. VideoGuard makes
it possible to transfer pay-TV content from the STB/DVR to any other
device in the home that can receive
and play video content: PCs, mobile handsets, portable media players,
and even USB keys that enable “sneaker
net” applications to any managed device.
VideoGuard has been extended beyond traditional conditional access
to provide full DRM services so that content is protected and usage
rules are associated with the content wherever it is. VideoGuard
CA/DRM includes support for the industry-accepted DVB-CPCM standard
for content protection so that a uniform standard is implemented
across supported devices in the home network.
VideoGuard provides the applications to make certain you
stay a market leader.