Kabel BW Selects NDS Videoguard Content Protection for Its Digital Cable Service in Germany

NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS), the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that Kabel BW, the leading cable operator in the South-western German state of Baden-Württemberg, has chosen to protect its digital cable offering with VideoGuard®, NDS’ world-leading conditional access solution which secures service revenues of more than $32 billion worldwide. The decision to switch its conditional access system to NDS VideoGuard is a cornerstone of Kabel BW’s strategy to operate and further develop a fully independent technical platform for its digital pay-TV offering. With more than 69.9 million active smart cards deployed, NDS VideoGuard is the world-leading CA system with an unsurpassed track record in securing digital content. During the coming months, NDS and Kabel BW will migrate the cable platform to the new VideoGuard technology. As part of this process, smart cards currently deployed in Kabel BW’s STBs will be swapped-out and NDS VideoGuard conditional access software will be downloaded to all existing STBs. New boxes will be exclusively equipped with VideoGuard. Following the deployment of NDS VideoGuard, Kabel BW plans to complete its service offering with new interactive features and applications based on NDS' middleware infrastructure MediaHighway™. "The determining factors for choosing NDS VideoGuard were its high level of security and the far-reaching technological perspective of the system”, said Uwe Bärmann, Managing Director Technology of Kabel BW. "VideoGuard is an end-to-end solution that seamlessly integrates with new service offerings and applications such as Video-on-Demand (VOD), digital video recording technologies (DVR), and home networking including the use of multimedia-enabled devices, and much more.” Gerhard W. Bickmann, Managing Director Finance of Kabel BW, added: "With an independent technology platform based on NDS VideoGuard, Kabel BW will be able to continue reacting quickly and flexibly to customer demands and market challenges. This fits in perfectly with our successful triple-play strategy, characterizing Kabel BW as one of the most innovative cable operators in Germany.” Becoming the partner of choice for Kabel BW means that NDS VideoGuard will be deployed for the first time in one of Germany’s key markets,” commented Caroline Le Bigot, VP and General Manager of NDS France. "We are looking forward to actively supporting Kabel BW in securing and developing their digital cable platform and content service offering,” Le Bigot added. Yves Padrines, Director of Business Development at NDS France, said: "We are extremely pleased to announce our second major breakthrough in Germany, following the recent deployment of NDS MediaHighway middleware with Premiere.” About NDS NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-television platform operators and content providers. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS. About Kabel BW Kabel BW is one of the first large providers to have introduced triple play services in cable, including analog and digital cable TV, broadband Internet access and telephony services. Today Kabel BW is one of the largest cable operators in Germany and Europe with more than 2.3 million customers. While continually completing its triple play offering, Kabel BW has more than 80 analog channels and more than 600 digital programs (including HDTV) on offer, and it provides high speed Internet with up to 25 Mbit/s as well as telephony. For the financial year 2006 Kabel BW estimates revenues to have increased from €255 million to more than €280 million. See www.kabelbw.de for more information about Kabel BW. Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-looking Statements This document contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance as of the time the statements are made. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in global economic, business, competitive market and regulatory factors. More detailed information about these and other factors that could affect future results is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The "forward-looking statements" included in this document are made only as of the date of this document and we do not have any obligation to publicly update any "forward-looking statements" to reflect subsequent events or circumstance, except as required by law.