NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, announced today a partnership with MobiTV (pdf) to demonstrate the first-ever secure delivery of Mobile WiMAX TV to Ultra Mobile PCs.

The integration of NDS VideoGuard with the MobiTV service enables Mobile WiMAX operators to offer premium mobile television over a two-way IEEE 802.16e network while maintaining content rights and protecting service revenues. The secret sauce in the NDS/MobiTV technology is the ability to switch from unicasting (to one subscriber) to multi-casting (to multiple subscribers). Multcasting, like broadcasting, allows one tv program to be sent to millions of viewers simultaneously, using a single channel.

An agreement with KT (pdf), the leading telecommunications company in Korea, will deploy a full end-to-end system including NDS VideoGuard Mobile and NDS VideoGuard PMP on the company’s new mobile content platform.

The NDS content protection solution will enable the secure download of a wide variety of video content over WiFi hotspots, providing both content owners and consumers with a new, secure way to download video to their mobile CE devices.

MobiTV announced support for the WiMAX standard last year and is a member of the WiMAX Forum.

Posted by Sam Churchill on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 at 9:38 am.