News Corp's technology company NDS has announced that it is providing Cablevision with a number of advanced technologies for its subscribers. Cablevision's company Rainbow DBS offers Voom which claims to be the first service built from the ground up to deliver a broad offering of high definition TV programming.

Rainbow and NDS have launched an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) that has been constructed specifically for high-definition programming. An NDS release further informs that within a few months Voom will transition its conditional access over to NDS’s VideoGuard protection. With the full integration of VideoGuard conditional access, all content delivered by Voom over satellite will be protected and enhanced through VideoGuard’s wide ranging feature set. Using NDS’s Digital Video Recorder content protection and storage technology, Voom will also be able to offer its subscribers a secure networked Digital Video Recorder product that supports the safe distribution of content throughout the home.

Additionally the collaboration will bring to market the first HDTV solution using a Motorola set-top box integrated with NDS conditional access technology. The new agreement also builds upon an existing relationship with Cablevision whereby NDS provides conditional access solutions to many of its digital cable customers.

NDS has stated that its VideoGuard technology is recognised as one of the most advanced and secure technologies available. It protects more than $15 billion in customer revenues while enabling pay-TV and providing a much broader feature set to enrich the viewing
experience.