NDS Group Ltd. - DEN Networks Limited Launches TV Blogging Application and Music Service with NDS MediaHighway

Logo NDSStore this angel in big size- Den Networks Limited (DEN) has launched an alternate TV micro blogging application, Blog.telly, and a 24 X 7 music account for the agenda cable TV market
- Both applications run on NDS MediaHighway® set-top box software
- This added demonstrates NDS’ charge to the bounded development of innovative, world-class solutions for the Indian agenda pay-TV market

Mumbai, India, 24.09.2009 - NDS, the arch provider of technology solutions for agenda pay-TV, today appear that DEN (DEN Networks Limited), a arch Indian agenda cable TV operator, has launched two avant-garde casework on the NDS MediaHighway® platform. DEN has afresh launched an alternate TV micro blogging application, Blog.telly, afterwards the barrage of its 24x7 music account in January of this year.

In affiliation with NDS, DEN is carrying an ambrosial and ever-increasing aggregate of advertisement and alternate agenda television applications to its Indian cable TV viewers.

NDS’ market-leading MediaHighway® now offers DEN subscribers the adeptness to use Blog.telly to animadversion on accepted altercation capacity above four categories: News Views (current affairs), Movie Masala (movies), Gup Shup (TV, soaps and celebrity gossip) and Sports Mania. Comments can be acquaint via SMS or anon on the website. As able-bodied as accepting an advantage for subscribers to allotment their thoughts on TV content, Blog.telly will accommodate DEN with advice and acknowledgment on their subscribers’ brand and dislikes which can be acclimated to actuate approaching programming.

DEN’s afresh launched music account offers real-time, ceaseless music agreeable to its cable TV subscribers. Viewers can play, navigate, examination and administer the multi-lingual music agreeable of their choice.

DEN relies on an end-to-end band-aid from NDS, including NDS VideoGuard® codicillary acceptance arrangement (CAS), NDS Media Highway® set-top box software and an beat NDS cyberbanking programme adviser (EPG).

Mr. Anuj Gandhi, CEO, DEN, said: “The barrage of these added casework added improves the ball acquaintance for our agenda cable admirers in India. This would not be accessible after our technology affiliation with NDS, which enables us to bear such beat services.”

Ms. Sue Taylor, NDS Senior Vice President and General Manager Asia Pacific said, “We will abide to plan with DEN to accommodate world-class solutions and localised abutment in India, enabling them to bear alternate ball casework to their subscribers.”

About DEN
DEN Networks Limited (DEN) is a arch cable administration article with a pan-Indian footprint. DEN is answer by Sameer Manchanda, an industry adept with over 20-years of acquaintance in media & approach distribution. Raghav Bahl Promoter, Network18 Group, is a Director of the Company. DEN is led by CEO, Anuj Gandhi; Presidents - S. N. Sharma, Vikas Bali and M.G. Azhar - who accept been associated with the media industry for added than 16 years. In a abbreviate amount of time, DEN’s subscriber abject has broadcast from aught at assimilation to about 10 actor subscribers.

See www.dennetworks.com / www.digitelly.in for added advice about DEN.

“DEN Networks Limited is proposing, accountable to bazaar altitude and added considerations, a accessible affair of its disinterestedness shares and has filed a Draft Red Herring Prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”). The Draft Red Herring Prospectus is accessible on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the corresponding websites of the Global Co-ordinator and Book Running Lead Manager (“GCBRLM”) and Co-Book Running Lead Manager (“CBRLM”) at www.db.com/India and www.antiquelimited.com. Investors should agenda that investment in disinterestedness shares involves a top amount of accident and are requested to accredit to the area tiled “Risk Factors” of the Draft Red Herring Prospectus.”

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About NDS
NDS Group Ltd. creates the technologies and applications that accredit pay-TV operators to deeply bear agenda agreeable to TV STBs (set-top boxes), DVRs (digital video recorders), PCs, mobiles and added multimedia devices. Over 70 of the world’s arch pay-TV platforms await on NDS solutions to assure and enhance their businesses. VideoGuard® is the world’s market-leading codicillary acceptance (CA) and agenda rights administration (DRM) technology, currently deployed on 107 actor breath devices, and attention pay-TV account revenues beyond $40 billion. NDS middleware, including MediaHighway® which enables a host of beat casework for subscribers, has been deployed on 123 actor devices. NDS DVR technology, centred about XTV™, leads the all-around industry with 21 actor units deployed. (Deployment abstracts as of 30th June 2009).

Headquartered in the UK, NDS charcoal committed to advance in R&D with over 75% of its advisers committed to beat plan at development centres in China, Denmark, France, India, Israel, Korea, UK and US. NDS has aswell implemented a host of initiatives aimed at abbreviation its carbon brand and allowance agenda TV subscribers abate activity consumption.

NDS Group Ltd. is a clandestine aggregation endemic by the Permira Funds and News Corporation. See www.nds.com for added information.

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