Conditional Access Solution for Pay-TV Services

VideoGuard STB features the world’s leading conditional access. It enables platform operators to deliver the best pay-TV services to their subscribers’ televisions with maximum convenience and reliability. With VideoGuard STB, operators can secure the development of every phase of their pay-TV business. This includes standard definition (SD), DVRs, Video-on-Demand (VOD) – as well as the introduction of advanced services such as high definition (HD) and a hybrid combination that includes IP for on-demand delivery of TV services.

NDS VideoGuard STB is at the center of the VideoGuard family of products. It features the pay-TV industry’s most advanced and most secure suite of Conditional Access (CA) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions. VideoGuard STB also safeguards your service and your digital content over any platform to any device. In addition to STBs, VideoGuard also protects DVRs, mobile phones, portable media players (PMPs), and removable media.

VideoGuard STB provides the features operators want:

• Secured against piracy so you can remain fully focused on expanding your TV business.
• Increased loyalty and ARPU because subscribers receive features and flexibility that translate into real value for money. Adding new services keeps them loyal to your service.
• Wide range of business models let operators package and sell more content and services to subscribers. VideoGuard also delivers more types of tiers and bouquets as well as package options.
• Roadmap of new applications so your business will always have the latest new features that will attract new subscribers and provide ongoing value for money.

VideoGuard STB provides the applications to make certain you stay a market leader.

All the flexibility your subscribers demand

Today, subscribers increasingly want the flexibility to watch what they want at the time that is most convenient to them. NDS provides the integrated applications that enable your subscribers to enjoy VOD services and the most simple to use Digital Video Recorders (DVRs). VideoGuard integrates fully with the NDS XTV™ DVR, VOD services, and Broadcast IP Hybrid STBs. It protects stored content for the time it is available until it is either viewed or removed from the content line-up, ensuring that you can deliver the features and business models that create the most revenue:

• Record for free; pay when viewed
• On-demand services; classic VOD, Push VOD, and progressive download
• Content rentals
• Personalized pricing based on subscriber profiles

VideoGuard provides persistent content protection and makes XTV the market leading DVR technology because content remains as secure in the DVR as it was in its transmission. The same business rules apply.

Smart cards fight security threats

The smart cards in VideoGuard STB keep operators immune to security threats and give them new capabilities. Periodic exchanges of smart cards extend the life of set-top boxes while adding more security and the features customers want.

Complete content protection for two-way networks

For digital cable or telco operators who have a network centric operation, VideoGuard Server provides content protection for linear and on-demand services at the headend. VideoGuard Server is available as part of an end-to-end NDS IPTV service or can be integrated with your third party solutions of choice.

The choice of market leaders since 1987

For the past 20 years the world’s leading pay-TV operators have chosen NDS VideoGuard because of its pioneering use of smart cards, its zero tolerance of piracy, open integration with a wide variety of STBs and CE devices, effective operational security, and flexible business scenarios.