Providing Video Entertainment across Wireless Networks to Mobile Devices

Today’s savvy TV consumer wants to watch video everywhere and on any device. As a result, the range of video-capable portable devices is growing rapidly and the best of the world’s broadcasters and mobile operators are offering, or preparing to offer, Mobile TV services. Many of them are adding mobility to existing TV services.

To meet consumer demand, service providers need a reliable system that not only features complete mobile TV functionality, but can also be part of a convergence scenario with existing service platforms.

NDS Mobile TV from NDS meets these needs. An end-to-end, standards based content protection system for TV over mobile broadcast networks, it provides enhanced security, device interoperability, and extreme flexibility of business models.

NDS Mobile TV maximizes operator revenue from mobile TV services while enabling operators to aggregate their user base by means of the VideoGuard Unified Headend. Its content protection, metadata management, electronic service guide (ESG) and interactive technologies provide the essential foundation for service growth and user satisfaction.

It includes VideoGuard®, the pay-TV industry’s most advanced suite of Conditional Access (CA) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions. VideoGuard protects and secures your branded service and content over any platform to any device. In addition to mobile devices, this includes STBs, DVRs, PCs and removable media.

Are you a mobile operator who wants to introduce new TV services? Or perhaps you are an existing TV provider who wants to extend your service over a mobile network

No matter whether your service is emerging or established, you need stability, scalability and flexibility in a competitive market. That’s what you get from NDS Mobile TV. It gets you up and running quickly and securely and, when slotted into the VideoGuard Unified Headend, enables you to deliver content over any network to any device.

Standards: Not yet global

While the emergence of Mobile TV is a global phenomenon, the implementation of broadcast mobile standards is currently largely on a regional basis. NDS supports a number of the leading standards:

DVB-H. The most likely of all standards to achieve global penetration. Approved but not yet mandated by the EU with numerous trials in other countries.

STiMi. One of the competitors for recognition as the official standard in China. Not yet deployed.

MediaFLO. Deployed in the US with efforts being made to expand to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

T-DMB. Deployed in South Korea with a few small deployments elsewhere.

NDS also supports Multicast Broadcast Multimedia System (MBMS) and WiMAX wireless broadband and is able to provide solutions based on multiple standards and multiple platforms.

For each of these possibilities—broadcast/broadband, multiple standards and multiple platforms—the VideoGuard Mobile TV solution offers CA/DRM, metadata management, ESGs, GUIs—as well as DVRs (digital video recorders), an audience measurement system (AMS) and interactive TV (iTV).

Holistic approach

NDS takes a holistic approach to TV, emphasizing the importance of complete systems as well as the interdependence of system components. While many mobile TV services begin in stand-alone mode, NDS believes that mobile TV will be most successful when bundled with other distribution media and offer a converged and rich video entertainment experience.