NDS Group plc - NDS SELECTED BY GUANGZHOU CABLE FOR NEW DIGITAL CABLE SERVICE

Highlights:

- Guangzhou Radio and Television Network Company, Ltd (GZCATV), has called NDS to accommodate its arch VideoGuard® codicillary acceptance end-to-end solution
- NDS solutions will accredit GZCATV to arise the clearing from analog to agenda TV systems accouterment defended agenda TV casework for its absolute over 2 actor subscribers
- The Guangzhou arrangement extends NDS’s attendance aural Southern China, added deepening its position in the country

Guangzhou, CHINA - March 28, 2006: NDS, the arch provider of technology solutions for agenda pay-TV, today appear that Guangzhou Radio and Television Network Company, Ltd (GZCATV), has called NDS VideoGuard® codicillary acceptance for the barrage and alteration of the company’s agenda cable TV casework from analog for its subscribers in Guangzhou, aswell accepted as ‘Canton’, the basic city-limits of the Guangdong province.

NDS’s arch agenda technology will abutment GZCATV’s business and aegis needs enabling the aggregation to barrage added beat business models and casework on a defended and adjustable platform. By adopting NDS’s technology, the agenda programming amalgamation will aggrandize to added than 120 channels from its accepted alms of 50 analog channels.

With NDS’s codicillary acceptance capabilities extending above the set top box into alternate TV, HDTV, and DVR, GZCATV is agreement itself in a able position in the development of China’s agenda broadcasting industry.

"NDS is the a lot of defended arrangement accessible in the apple and based on their accurate acquaintance in the alteration to agenda media in China, NDS is the accustomed best for GZCATV. In affiliation with NDS we are assured that we will bear a reliable and agitative agenda TV alms to our subscribers," said Mr. Yang Yuhua, General Manager of GZCATV.

"We are acutely appreciative to be called by GZCATV as its codicillary acceptance accomplice for the deployment of its defended agenda cable belvedere and attending advanced to acknowledging the barrage of approaching acquirement acceptable services. This is addition accomplished arrangement for NDS in Southern China," said Gary Zhou, VP and General Manager of NDS China.

The NDS end-to-end solutions called by GZCATV cover NDS VideoGuard codicillary access, NDS StreamServer, Digital Broadcasting Management and NDS’s Scheduler, which acquiesce for the ascendancy of activating scheduling and codicillary access. The accumulated band-aid will acquiesce GZCATV to advance an industry arch agenda belvedere able of carrying amount added casework in a defended and able-bodied environment.


About NDS
NDS Group plc (NASDAQ/ Euronext Brussels: NNDS), a News Corporation company, is a arch supplier of accessible end-to-end agenda pay TV solutions for the defended accumulation of ball and advice to television set-top boxes and IP devices. See www.nds.com for added advice about NDS.

About Guangzhou Radio and Television Network Company., LTD (GZCATV)
Guangzhou Radio and Television Network Company., Ltd (GZCATV) is the above cable abettor in Guangzhou, confined over 2 actor subscribers and has 70% bazaar allotment in the city. See www.gzcatv.net for added advice about GZCATV.


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