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Get ready for the next generation
            user experience

NDS EPGs are geared for delivering a next generation TV experience that matches the HD content available today. Leading broadcasters, such as BSkyB, Cox, DIRECTV, FOXTEL, Sky Deutschland, Sky Italia, Tata Sky, and many more, have already deployed NDS EPGs for their latest HD multi-tuner Digital Video Recorder (DVR) products.

Our new EPGs support both NTSC and PAL standard definitions through to 1080p. We have even created award-winning 3-D prototype EPGs.

With a selection of modern looks, they deliver a fantastic user experience that lets customers spend more time watching the content they want rather than searching for it.

As the technology for creating a high quality user experience constantly advances, you can rely on NDS to be at the forefront of guide design.

 


Benefit from our
          extensive experience

The Electronic Program Guide (EPG) has become the primary visual portal to broadcast, interactive, OTT and
on-demand entertainment services.

Whether you are looking for content through a branded EPG, playing games, or ordering a vacation, the User Interface (UI) has become a critical service differentiator for TV platforms.

NDS has gained more than 15 years of experience in designing, developing, and integrating compelling UIs.

NDS UIs are now used in more than 150 million homes, across more than 20 leading pay-TV platforms worldwide.

They are integrated with hundreds of types of set-top boxes (STBs), numerous middlewares and CE devices such as PMPs, laptops, and mobile phones.

NDS Snowflake

NDS EPGs run on everything from low-powered legacy STBs to the latest pre-release chipsets. They are compatible with just about every screen resolution, with fonts for dozens of languages, and solutions for almost any feature set.


Flexible designs for a
         multiple subscriber base

Successfully promoting content and services requires a dynamic, fresh looking user interface. But it also needs to be intuitive, color- and font-friendly so it can be used by a variety of subscriber bases and cultures. NDS designs are deployed in a wide variety of countries and are available in more than 20 languages.

Our global design team and our experience working with customers worldwide enables us to understand the needs of viewers coming from many cultures and countries.

With a wide variety of UIs to choose from, your platform can select a design from our library of existing modules to create a unique interface in the shortest possible time.

Alternatively, NDS UI Services can help you improve your existing in-house design. We can also create an original EPG according to your specification.

 

Our worldwide presence ensures that we can support any UI requirements in a variety of market situations including:

  • Pay-TV providers looking to differentiate their service
  • Free-to-air (FTA) operators in markets with analogue switch-off
  • CE manufacturers looking to support TV services on their devices including tablets, mobile phones, and other devices
  • Web portals looking to take advantage of the Internet TV opportunity

A comprehensive
         UI service

As the primary branded portal for all of the services you offer, your UI will be seen by all your subscribers. It has the potential to drive additional revenues and strengthen customer loyalty while enhancing your service. It can make the difference between keeping and losing customers. That's why it needs to be impressive and perform smoothly.

Years of design and integration expertize enable NDS to offer a "one-stop shop" for all the UI services your business may need.

Supported by design centres in France, UK and India, the NDS UI Services Group can swiftly mobilise resources to support your pay-TV business through any, or all of, the following UI deployment phases.

User experience design: defining target audience, key use cases, features and functions in order to create paper prototypes and concept documents.

Interaction design: designing communication between user and product, architecture and navigation, interaction flow and then creating mockups, demos, and storyboards.

Graphic design: assessing customer brand requirements, producing visual concepts and final graphic design including assets, fonts, icons, layout.

UI programming and development: focusing on performance-critical elements, customer reviews, comments and sign-off at each milestone.

Usability testing: including expert review from user testing partners, competitive benchmarking, task analysis, and likability testing.

External testing: using NDS testing applications and focus groups for externally evaluating design effectiveness.

Remote control design: creating ergonomic and user-friendly remote controls, based on decades of experience integrating and deploying remote controls for customers.


A branding portal for your
            converged TV service

Convergence has extended the TV experience beyond the living room to an array of devices. NDS understands that applications need to be accessed and controlled differently on these platforms.

We also appreciate that subscribers need to be able to easily interact with your TV service on any device without needing to learn a new interface.

NDS has consistently led the industry in prototyping user interface designs on all types of devices. We have quickly mastered the art of creating common two- and ten-foot UIs for multiple user devices and applications including:

 

 

  • SD and HD EPGs for TVs
  • PCs, mobile phones, and tablet devices
  • Stand-alone, enhanced and participatory interactive TV applications such as games, betting, T-commerce, info services, voting and quizzes

NDS helps you get the best performance from each device by designing UIs that take advantage of their strengths and compensate for their limitations.


NDS EPG Framework:
           giving you total control

From building a brand new EPG to customising your existing one without software downloads, you can now manage all aspects of the user interface with NDS EPG Framework.

Growing your pay-TV business

The EPG Framework has a wide range of supplementary features and functions to help you generate further revenue, enhance user stickiness, and reduce churn:

  • Address different audiences with targeted messages and content
  • Enhance the EPG by offering different looks to assorted subscriber groups
  • Offer revenue generating video-on-demand (VOD) services with a highly visual user experience based on cover images
  • Create new revenue streams by using EPG real estate or banners for sponsorships, promotions, and ads

Save time and costs with EPG Designer

A template-based tool for customising EPGs in-house, EPG Designer saves your pay-TV platform valuable time and significant costs. You can change your EPG's look and feel periodically or create special designs for targeted user groups.

With EPG Designer, and appropriate training, you will be able to:

  • Build and launch a new EPG
  • Introduce new graphic elements without a software download
  • Drag and drop new features to create HD and SD EPGs
  • Preview the EPG before deployment
  • Assign and configure animations to the EPG

 

 


Put our EPGs and UIs
          to work for you

Providing a clearly branded and colourful way for your subscribers to access your content and services is vital for any pay-TV service to succeed. But UIs are also an important marketing tool for pushing premium, pay-per-view, and VOD content to subscribers, so you can strengthen loyalty to your platform and increase revenues.

NDS' EPGs and UI Services provide more than just a great user interface. They also enhance your brand, improve your quality of service, and reduce call center costs.

Whether your pay-TV business deploys low- or high-end HD/IP STBs, or any other video device, NDS EPGs and UI Services will squeeze the most out of your chipset to create a TV experience that is fun, dynamic, and exciting.

Put our experience to work, so we can help to make your pay-TV service easier to use and more profitable!




NDS customers worldwide

To learn more about how NDS EPGs and UI Services can redefine the user experience on your platform, visit the Web page or contact us.