NDS Brings Leading Global Players and Taiwan Consumer Electronics Industry Together at a Conference to Explore International Opportunities

TAIPEI, TAIWAN . — NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has invited leaders from the global consumer electronics and pay-TV industry to share strategies for international partnership with the Taiwan Consumer Electronics industry. International industry leaders are to be joined by Secretary General Hsieh Kuang Cheng of the Taiwan Digital TV Committee (DTVC).

NDS is actively searching for ‘best in class’ partners in the Asia Pacific region to co-operatively develop leading edge CE products to meet the demand in the growing global pay-TV market. Furthermore, to this end, NDS seeks to establish stronger ties with the Taiwanese consumer electronics industry. To facilitate these endeavours, and to discuss international opportunities for companies in the Taiwanese CE industry, NDS is hosting the NDS International Consumer Electronics Industry Conference on 14 October, 2008 in Taipei

Mr. Bong-Mu Lee, Project Director and Head of the Convergence Business Group of Kaon Media, and one of the honoured speakers at the Conference, commented, “In partnering with NDS, we were introduced to new customers located around the world and expanded our business overseas.” Kaon Media is one of the 10 largest set top box manufacturers in the world.

“Taiwanese CE vendors in partnership with NDS can achieve significant growth in the global market while offering TV viewers in Taiwan the best possible viewing experience,” said Chris Yap, Vice President, Business Development, NDS Asia Pacific. “Taiwanese manufacturers are leaders in the markets in which they operate, and many have become major global providers of advanced technologies. NDS looks forward to developing stronger ties with Taiwan’s CE manufacturers and pay-TV operators,” he added.

NDS is the worldwide market leader in content protection and DRM solutions for digital pay-TV. At the heart of NDS’ solutions portfolio is VideoGuard® the internationally trusted technology that currently protects content in over 90.3 million digital devices around the world. NDS’ industry leading solutions allow operators to securely deliver digital TV content anywhere, anytime to any device. Over 60 pay-TV platforms of all sizes rely on NDS to secure their valuable TV content. safeguarding over $35 billion USD in customer revenues.

Kuang-Cheng Hsieh, Secretary General of the Taiwan DTVC said, “In order for the Taiwan digital pay-TV industry to grow, highly robust digital content protection is absolutely essential to ensure that operators get all the revenues to which they are entitled, to protect the rights of content owners and producers, and to ensure that consumers get the full value of their pay-TV subscription fees.”

NDS’ market leading solutions on display at the International Consumer Electronics Industry Conference will shed light on the latest trends in what consumers want from their TV experience today and will present a glimpse into the next generation of content protection, navigation and personalised content management in a world where people want the freedom to choose what content they want to watch, as well as where and when they want to watch it.