The leading supplier of open end-to-end digital
pay-TV solutions strengthens Asia Pacific’s VoD Technology Alliance

Singapore, November 9, 2006 - ANYTIME, Asia Pacific’s leading Video on-Demand (VoD) channel, today announced that NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, is the newest member of the ANYTIME Technology Partner Program.

The ANYTIME Technology Partner Program is a collaboration between ANYTIME and the world’s leading VoD technology vendors. It aims to reduce the time to deploy secure, quality, VoD services in Asia Pacific. The Program allows technology vendors to come together to ensure process compliance and data flow compatibility from publishing, to billing API’s and royalty reporting.

NDS Group is a NASDAQ-listed company; the largest shareholder in NDS is News Corporation. NDS solutions enable broadcasters, network TV operators and content providers to profit from the deployment of digital TV technologies including innovative solutions for digital video recorders, interactivity, secure broadband, home networks and content on the go. NDS boasts an impressive customer list, featuring some of the world’s leading pay-TV operators, such as BSkyB, DIRECTV, SkyLife and FOXTEL.

"NDS is pleased to join the ANYTIME Technology Partner Program. We regard this as an important technology alliance to enable our customers to implement VoD services in a timely and seamless fashion," said Sue Taylor, Vice President and General Manager of NDS Asia Pacific.

“With their in-house expertise, ANYTIME will help us test and review a complete range of IPTV products and solutions and develop reference architectures for our customers. The ANYTIME Technology Partner Program is the answer to fast-tracking VoD deployments in Asia Pacific.”

“NDS’s end-to-end deployments demonstrate the company’s ability to offer unparalleled expertise in content delivery and protection. Conditional access is a vital component in any VoD delivery model and NDS has the capabilities to bring content security to a new level,” said Craig Ginsberg, Chief Technology Officer, ANYTIME.
NDS joins a rapidly growing number of the world’s leading technology vendors including Verimatrix, SecureMedia, Concurrent and Tatung as members of the ANYTIME Technology Partner Program.

The ANYTIME Technology Partner Program has two levels of agreement – Technology compliance, and Cooperation & Co-marketing. If accepted into the Program, vendors can work with ANYTIME to ensure their products, services or solutions, comply with the highest industry standards for VoD content delivery.

The Program is open to STB manufacturers, middleware vendors, Conditional Access and DRM hardware and software makers, VoD server manufacturers, and Systems Integrators. It is vendor-agnostic, ensuring that Telcos, ISPs and Digital Cable providers receive impartial advice and information on VoD delivery technology.

For more information about the ANYTIME Technology Partner Program visitor:
http://www.anytimeondemand.com/anytime_chlicensing_techpartners.html or to
apply, email: techpartners@anytimeondemand.com

About ANYTIME

Headquartered in Singapore, ANYTIME is Asia Pacific’s leading video on-demand channel delivered to consumers over IPTV, broadband and digital cable networks. With output deals and access to the libraries of five of Hollywood’s leading studios—Fox, Sony, Warner, Universal and Disney —and licenses with regional content providers like Celestial Pictures, ICON Film Distribution and Becker Entertainment, ANYTIME has an unsurpassed programming line-up.

When added to proven technology, ANYTIME delivers compelling content with the control and convenience that consumers demand.

ANYTIME has existing carriage deals in Australia, India, Taiwan and Thailand, and the rights to license into 14 territories in Asia Pacific.

ANYTIME’s shareholder’s include CPE Holdings Inc. (Sony), Fox Media Services Inc., Intel Capital, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., YTC Group (a Singapore based multinational conglomerate), the Macquarie Bank Group and Coote/Hayes Productions LLC (a U.S. based TV and film production company).

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