NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-TV platform operators and content providers. Tata Sky Ltd., the joint venture between the TATA Group and STAR, is committed to offering pay television in India through its nationwide satellite television service with more than 160 channels and interactive services in DVD-quality picture and CD quality sound.

The latter has now selected the former to supply the XTV DVR solution for Tata Sky+ (Tata Sky Plus), a new service offering full Personal Video Recorded (PVR) functionality in the Indian pay-TV market. Tata Sky+ offers viewers the power to plan and control their TV viewing experience with features such as Record Live TV and Pause & Rewind Live TV. Featuring MPEG4 technology, the service has a memory capacity that can accommodate recording of all content. Tata Sky joins over 18 other major pay-TV operators located around the world who have selected NDS solutions to introduce the flexibility of the PVR to their subscribers.

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