News Corp. company to provide content protection to Japanese cable pay-TV.(NDS Group/BB Cable TV)(Brief Article)

TV Meets the Web, September, 2002

TV MEETS THE WEB-(C)2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/

NDS Group, a News Corporation company and provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV has announced that it will provide content protection to BB Cable TV (CATV) in Japan. This will be the world's first launch of a secure pay-TV service using IP over ADSL on a large scale.

BB Cable TV will use NDS's Synamedia software suite at the head-end and NDS smart-cards for use in subscriber set-top boxes (STB). Club iT will launch the BB Cable TV service through its wholly-owned subsidiary BB Cable Corporation in Autumn 2002 initially in 23 wards of Tokyo then extending to Saitama-city, Chiba-city, and Yokohama later in 2002 and Sapporo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka,...

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