Join the Paparazzi with NDS Visionik's New DRM Mobile Snapshot Interactive Application

Business Wire, Feb 24, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

3GSM World Congress 2004

Suite M33

CANNES, France & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2004

3GSM Cannes, Suite M33 - NDS (Nasdaq:NNDS):

Highlights:

-- NDS Visionik's new application enables download of mobile

assets from interactive TV;

-- In a few clicks, Snapshot(TM) lets the viewers create

individual 'wallpapers' for personalisation of their mobile

phones;

-- Snapshot offers brand building and a new revenue stream for

operators and broadcasters;

-- Protected by NDS's Mobile DRM based on VideoGuard(R) content

distribution to mobile phones is controlled and monitored

NDS company Visionik, a leading developer of interactive TV services announces the launch of its downloadable Snapshot(TM) application. Operators and broadcasters can offer Snapshot to their viewers so that they can 'snap' an image that they desire, from favorite TV shows, and use it as 'wallpaper' on their mobile phones. Snapshot is unique because it allows the viewer to capture their special moment and content is protected by NDS's mobile DRM VideoGuard(R) based solution.

With Snapshot, viewers can freeze images, while watching TV, from their digital TV broadcast and have them delivered as 'wallpaper' to their mobile phones. Snapshot allows the viewer to take the shot that they want, when they want it - not just choose from a limited, predefined range of images, which is the current model in the Internet. The process is a click of the button on the remote control to capture a personalized image of a favorite pop star, sports personality or cartoon character. Enter a destination mobile phone number and the unique image will be delivered to that mobile. With the Snapshot edit module, images can be edited and previewed by the viewer before they are delivered via MMS or WAP push.

Snapshot can be deployed on multi-middleware platforms with the advantage of the NDS DRM solution, which gives operators the opportunity to enhance and expand their programming and revenues through the extensions of their media outlets.

"The launch of Snapshot is an exciting stage in the growth of interactive TV," said Jesper Knutsson, VP Interactive TV Europe, NDS. "Visionik has created a service that will enable broadcasters to utilize their programming in new and diverse ways. Snapshot is a great way to add a new line to an operator's interactive TV revenue stream, and we are expanding the service in-line with consumer upgrades to advanced mobile technology. Snapshot works with mobile phones that are currently in the market, but we will be ready to launch new Snapshot modules for personalized 'tunes' and 'video' as soon as an optimum penetration of capable mobile phones has been reached."

About NDS

NDS Group plc (NASDAQ/Euronext Brussels:NNDS) is a leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices. See http://www.nds.com/ for more information about NDS.

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