Talk:Cisco Videoscape

Company Name

NDS does NOT stand for "News Digital Systems", thus the title of this topic is wrong. Try checking this on Google.

True, it actually stands for "NDS" now, but the company is best known as News Datacom still. --21:55, 9 September 2005 (UTC) Unsigned comment by User:Kiand

News Datacom is not acceptable as the title for this article. It is officially NDS Group plc, as such I have moved it to NDS Group. Moving it to News Datacom is like moving British Airways to BOAC (what it was called in 1974). Mark83 00:54, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I moved it to the name thats most commonly used, which is the usual procedure - find any satellite box maker that doesn't use the term "News Datacom" as the 'friendly' name for Videoguard's CA provider ID.

Not asking for it to be moved back, mind. I didn't move it to NDS as thats a disambig page and assumed this would be the best possible alternative. --Kiand 19:34, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

So did the company acronym at least originally stand for "News Digital Systems"? Maikel 10:04, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd guess it means "News Datacom Systems". --Kiand 13:17, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, but according to the folks over at NDS it's News Digital Systems. Maikel 15:15, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

"News Digital Systems" is indeed correct.Briefnexact 03:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC) Briefnexact

scanning electron microscope ?

Can someone explain this ? As far as I understand ... if it's on the smart-card (and it's needed by the box) the reader will read it eventually.

When attempting to extract information from a card that isn't available to a box, you can't just use a reader. And you generally destroy secure microprocessors generally fuse themselves if you attempt to use them in the 'wrong type' of reader anyway. --Kiand 16:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

scanning electron microscope - Availability

A google search with the terms "scanning electron microscope unit university" suggests almost every university has one in their biology department. 81.99.206.182 (talk) 06:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Nds color.jpg

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BetacommandBot 04:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Is it OK now? lkitross (talk) 06:40, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Tax evasion investigation

I think this subject should be removed; literally dozens of companies are investigated for tax evasion in Israel yearly - if they haven't been indicted, it means absolutely nothing... 79.182.177.251 (talk) 17:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

"literally dozens" (dozen = 12 - thus dozens is a multiple of 12) out of how many? I would imagine "dozens" are investigated in most countries each year, that doesnt make it potentally any less serious.

It also needs better sourcing and perhaps more detail of what happened - and that should be the sole arbiter of whether it remains in. Pit-yacker (talk) 17:30, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Too advertisement-like?

Flag for this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.35.76.243 (talk) 13:27, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Messed Up

As a Jew, I am entitled to say that News Corp. has messed up an Israeli company.

173.57.39.131 (talk) 23:56, 4 July 2012 (UTC)Anonymous

This page is indeed completely messed up. Synamedia Holdings Limited is a new company and not the same as the Israeli company NDS Group Ltd. which was integrated into it: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11305472

--D00kSI (talk) 23:19, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

M&A

Not all of Synamedia is NDS/Videoscape. There's a lot of SA in there too. I think some other acquisitions also. It's disingenuous to say NDS makes up the entire company -- it's a bit over half the company I think.

Not editing the article, I am a biased insider. 208.116.162.162 (talk) 15:34, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Restoring recently deleted factual history

Reading this page, I noticed that factual information had been deleted and that there were several historical inconsistencies. Following are points to note:

• The original founders' names were removed from the article. The names, originally inserted in this article on 24 June 2015, were deleted on 3 February 2021.
• The sentence beginning "The company was established in Har Hotzvim" was removed because of two factual inaccuracies:
  • The company was established in downtown Jerusalem.
  • It did not receive special tax incentives for starting in Jerusalem; rather it was the city where all the founders lived.
• Minor typos (e.g., correcting Bruce Hundertmark's family name, "Datacom" with a small 'c')

Moshe Rubin (talk) 13:39, 3 February 2022 (UTC)