NDS introduced its High Definition Digital Video Recorder an Amino AmiNET530 Set-Top Box powered by Metro middleware, for the IPTV market. NDS Metro is an integrated IPTV middleware and conditional access solution that provides a complete end-to-end turnkey offering for telecommunications companies and broadband operators. The NDS HD DVR solution will be exhibited with live streaming of 100 video channels on an AmiNET530 in the NDS booth #214 at TelcoTV 2007.

SES AMERICOM, the only company delivering MPEG4 IPTV service to telcos in the US, is the first customer and will integrate the HD DVR solution into its IP-PRIME IPTV solution for service providers.

NDS will offer innovative revenue driving opportunities and features for telco and broadband operators by integrating its solution with the world-class Amino AmiNET530 interactive STB. At TelcoTV, NDS will demonstrate key elements of the advanced viewer experience for the first time, including one-touch recording, scheduling a recording through the electronic programming guide and disk playback capabilities. The NDS Metro solution ensures that video content is protected at all times with the HD MPEG4 DVR, regardless of when it is recorded or played.

Along with working with standard definition content and MPEG-2, the NDS HD H.264 DVR also offers end-users enhanced imaging with HD content. The new features of this DVR include:

• Electronic Programming Guide: Metro’s consolidated, intuitive EPG gives users immediate access to video on demand and archived content with a customizable and scalable viewing pane.
• Time-Shifted HD Content: Viewers can play, record, fast forward or rewind their DVR’ed content while maintaining the HD quality of a live feed. And with Metro, the content being viewed is always securely protected.
• Standards-based and Open: Metro is built with open software interfaces and is based on internationally recognized standards. It uses the latest video codecs, integrated into high definition decoder chips for bandwidth economy, keeping set-top box costs low. It also uses standards-based content protection technology, compliant with DVB SimulCrypt interfaces and use of AES standard encryption, to facilitate choice and interoperability with a wide range of hardware suppliers, thus driving down the total cost of IPTV deployment and ensuring faster and easier integrations.
• My Planner and My TV: The viewer experience with the HD H.264 Metro DVR is based on the same Metro interface used for NDS’ non-DVR product, with various enhancements such as a set of menu options for managing personal recordings and defining personalized DVR characteristics such as the viewing pane.