NDS and Frontier Silicon to Collaborate on Content Protection for Mobile Digital Television

NDS and Frontier Silicon to Collaborate on Content Protection for Mobile Digital Television

LONDON, August 30/PRNewswire/ -- NDS, the leading provider of secure content delivery technology for
digital pay-TV, and Frontier Silicon - the leading fabless manufacturer of
semiconductors for mobile digital television (DVB-H & T-DMB) and DAB digital
radio products - have signed a collaborative agreement for joint development
and marketing of secure content protection and digital rights management
(DRM) for mobile digital TV and DAB digital radio.

The agreement between the two companies is expected to address the
security concerns that content providers have in releasing premium content
into the high growth MDTV (mobile digital television) and DAB radio markets.
NDS and Frontier Silicon will develop a secure end-to-end solution with
content securely encoded at the head-end, transmitted and securely received
or consumed by users with appropriate digital rights. The tight coupling of
NDS' content protection technology, mVideoGuard(R), to Frontier Silicon's
hardware will ensure content providers get one of the most secure mobile TV
and radio delivery mechanisms in the industry.

The companies will demonstrate such secure downloads with NDS'
mVideoGuard conditional access (CA), DRM and electronic program guide (EPG)
solutions over Frontier Silicon's T-DMB, DVB-H and DAB product platforms.
Initial prototype platforms will be showcased at IBC on stand number 6.006
from 9th-13th September in Amsterdam.

Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon commented, "In such a high
growth and potentially lucrative mobile TV market, the content download
business model will only be viable if chipset and conditional access/digital
rights management developers work closely together. Our collaboration with
NDS is therefore an exciting prospect as we'll be working towards developing
the industry's most secure mobile TV and radio solution - combining the
advanced security features of the NDS mVideoGuard technology and our own
chipsets for T-DMB, DVB-H and DAB ."

Carmi Bogot, VP business development at NDS, added, "We foresee a big
potential from our partnership with Frontier Silicon across the various
digital multimedia technologies for TV and radio. Frontier's unique
multi-standard T-DMB/DVB-H approach to mobile TV on top of the company's
leading position in DAB/T-DMB chipsets, gives NDS opportunities to work with
appropriate partners to develop the secure delivery solution that content
providers can rely upon, over multiple broadcast technologies."

Editor's notes:

About NDS

NDS Group plc (NASDAQ/ Euronext Brussels: NNDS), a majority owned
subsidiary of News Corporation, 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 www.nds.com for
more information about NDS.

About Frontier Silicon

Frontier Silicon is an award-winning company at the forefront of the
digital multimedia revolution with a range of semiconductor solutions for
mobile digital television, digital TV and digital radio.

The company develops and delivers both the broadcast signal receiver
modules and digital processing circuits as individual chips and complete
system modules to leading consumer electronics and mobile phone brands.

As a fabless semiconductor business, Frontier Silicon's core products
include complete DAB modules, DVB-T solutions, DMB (digital multimedia
broadcasting) solutions, and the underlying system-on-chip (SoC) devices and
receiver chips.

Key customers for the company's products include consumer electronic,
automotive entertainment and PDA/mobile phone manufacturers such as Bang &
Olufsen, Cambridge Audio, Goodmans, Grundig, Hitachi, Ministry of Sound,
Philips, PURE Digital, Roberts Radio, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and TEAC. Frontier
Silicon has won a number of awards and its products have also enabled
award-winning consumer products. The company's awards include the Fabless
Semiconductor Association's start-up to watch award, PricewaterhouseCoopers
hottest technology company of 2004 award, the World Economic Forum's
technology pioneers to watch 2005, and the Tornado T100 award for one of the
best-performing and innovative high-tech private companies. For more
information visit www.frontier-silicon.com.

Source: Frontier Silicon Ltd

Contact: Anthony Sethill, CEO, Frontier Silicon, Tel: +44-(0)-1923-474200 Fax: +44-(0)1923-202251 Email: press@frontier-silicon.com Margot Field, Director, Public Relations, NDS, Tel: +44-(0)-20-8476-8158 Mobile: +44-(0)788-191-8158

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