[July 25, 2008] Sistema chooses NDS solution Tweet (DMeurope Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Russian media company Sistema Mass Media (SMM) has selected the NDS Unified Headend to manage and protect TV content delivery to subscribers across both IP and mobile networks. NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has informed that the NDS Unified Headend integrates conditional access (CA), Digital Rights Management (DRM) and third party applications, allowing operators to deliver secure broadcast and Video-On-Demand (VOD) services to a variety of devices set-top boxes (STBs), mobile phones, PCs, Portable Media Players (PMPs) and digital video recorders (DVRs). SMM's deployment will include VideoGuard Mobile, NDS' secure mobile TV solution, part of the NDS Unified Headend, to protect its upcoming DVB-H mobile TV service. Digital Teleradiobroadcasting (DTB), an SMM subsidiary, will launch the mobile TV service. The DVB-H service will debut in Moscow, which will be followed by a series of launches in 16 other Russian cities, the company said. (Distributed for DMeurope.com via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com)) Copyright ? 2008 M2 Communications Ltd. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]