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MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom is set
to launch India's first cable digital video
recorder (DVR) service with NDS XTV DVR
technology.
Korea-based Humax will be the set-top box
(STB) supplier. "We will be soft launching
the service in July. We have signed up with
NDS. The box price is not yet crystallised.
The launch of NDS' XTV DVR services is part
of our ongoing strategy to offer consumers
in India the very best pay television services
in the market," says Hathway Cable
& Datacom MD & CEO K Jayaraman.
NDS
Group plc, a majority owned subsidiary of
News Corp. that supplies open end-to-end
digital technology and services to digital
pay-television platform operators and content
providers, will start deploying its new
XTV DVR in the current year. It will give
subscribers control over what they watch
and when they watch it.
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