VideoGuard CA/DRM

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.