Sony boxes. NDS got the CA part. Cisco gets the cable modems, and data headend gear. What does Divicom get?????????
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Cablevision Selects NDS for Conditional Access
10/20/99 New York City?s largest cable operator has tapped NDS (Newport Beach, CA) to provide conditional access technology for its new generation of Sony-branded digital set-tops.
This collaboration marks NDS? first customer win for its conditional access (CA) technology in the US digital cable market. Cablevision, which has 3.4 million subscribers in the New York metro area, recently announced a billion-dollar deal to purchase digital set-top boxes from Sony (see Sony, Cablevision Team Up in Major Set-Top Deal).
NDS will supply its Open VideoGuard conditional access services, including both hardware and software to be integrated at Cablevision?s delivery network center. Cablevision expects to launch the digital services in 2000.
CA technology allows broadcasters and others to manage the distribution of their content by ensuring consumers view and use only what they pay for. CA allows broadcasters to offer flexible subscription tiers, tailor broadcasts by area, market segment or preference, and deliver video-on-demand and pay-per-view programming.
NDS held onto its conditional access division when it sold other parts of its digital broadcast technology, including encoding, compression, and ENG to Norway?s Tandberg Television in September. NDS supplies conditional access technology to Madtritel in Spain, NTC in China, UK?s BskyB, and DirecTV in the US.
Edited by Tom Butts |
