Yes Cooperating With VBox and NDS to Provide DBS Reception on the PC in Israel
VBox, a leading provider of PC-PayTV solutions, and NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that they are cooperating with Yes, the Israeli DBS operator, to provide a PC based reception solution for Yes’s pay TV subscription-based service in Israel.
Yes intends to provide VBox PC-TV receivers to its customers, allowing them to receive the full Yes offering of HD and SD channels, PPV and VOD on the PC platform.
The VBox receiver provides full DVR capabilities, enabling subscribers to time-shift and record content to their PC hard drive. The receiver is integrated with NDS’s VideoGuard PCTM, based on the leading conditional access and digital rights management solution for pay-TV; and bundled with Cyberlink’s PowerCinema home entertainment application.
“The VBox PC-TV receiver enables Yes to cater to young audiences for whom the PC is the natural entertainment center,” said Yes CEO Ron Eilon. “Yes sees a great market opportunity in PC based entertainment. The VBox receiver allows us to combine our strong offering of DBS based high-quality video, including our new HD channels, together with our Yes Broadband services, providing our subscribers with a first-rate user experience.”
“Supporting reception of premium high-definition content on the PC is a natural extension of NDS’s offerings for TV broadcasters,” said David Nabozny, Chief Sales Officer, NDS. “Together with VBox, we allow broadcasters to offer their high-quality content offering to PC users, providing a far-superior experience to Internet TV solutions.”
“Today’s viewers demand a more personalized experience, and the PC is becoming the entertainment platform of choice,” said VBox CEO Shlomo Turgeman. “The Premium PC-TV receiver enables broadcasters to cost-effectively answer these market requirements, leveraging their existing content and infrastructure.”
About Yes
Yes is Israel’s incumbent DBS broadcaster, serving over 545,000 subscriber. Since its inception, A technology innovator since its inception, Yes has been the first broadcaster in Israel to provide full-digital service. In 2007 Yes launched Yes Broadband, providing a complementary content offering to viewers on the PC.
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.
About VBox
VBox Communications, a subsidiary of Optibase (NASDAQ:OBAS) is a leading provider of customer-premises receiver solutions for digital TV and data broadcasting networks. VBox provide a wide range of PC and LAN based digital TV reception solutions, including handling of encrypted content for Pay TV services and delivery of high-quality video, audio and data services. VBox also provides routers and gateways for the reception of data and high quality digital content from digital broadcast infrastructures and their distribution over LAN.