San Francisco (NCTA - CableNet Booth #6490) April 5, 2005 - NDS, a News Corporation company and leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced the immediate availability of a new OpenCable Applications Platform (OCAP) version of its widely popular MediaHighway Development Kit (MHDK) Advanced. MHDK Advanced is the first and only development tool in the market to simulate the complete interactive TV chain, enabling developers to create, edit, test and debug interactive TV Javatm applications for MediaHighway Advanced set-top boxes and digital TVs on a single PC. With this new version, MHDK Advanced can simulate for developers the behavior of a MediaHighway Advanced OCAP set-top box.

The MediaHighway Advanced authoring tool allows for development and customization of applications to be deployed on Java-based digital TV interactive platforms. Using this new version, developers can now address an even wider variety of iTV environments, enabling the development of any kind of OCAP application, whether its resident, downloadable or a monitor application.

"We have already begun testing the new MHDK authoring tool and it is even more powerful and flexible than we hoped it would be," said Dominic Laval, Chief Operating Officer, emuse technologies. "At emuse, it is important that we have the right environment to develop compelling OCAP-compliant iTV applications for the U.S. market. The MHDK Advanced tool kit provides us with that creative environment."

An extremely high-performance tool, MHDK Advanced sharply reduces equipment costs and accelerates development time, leading to faster time-to-market implementations of innovative iTV applications. Features of the tool include:

Operations for uploading applications to a STB with monitoring MHDK Advanced is delivered, and includes plug-ins for many of the most popular Integrated Development Environments (IDE) such as SUN One Studio/NetBeans and Borland JBuilder.

"MHDK Advanced is already backed by a wide community of users," said Frederic Laporte, Director Marketing & Business Development MediaHighway, NDS. "Building on the confidence that the developer community already has in the maturity and stability of the MediaHighway development toolkit, this new version further expands the possibilities for developers, making it even easier for them to efficiently develop OCAP-compliant applications for the US digital television environment."

Interested developers can join the MediaHighway Community at http://www.nds.com/middleware/mediahighway_community.html

About NDS
NDS Group plc (NASDAQ/Euronext Brussels: NNDS) is a leading supplier of open endto- end digital pay TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and
information to television set-top boxes and
IP devices. See http://www.nds.com/ for more
information about NDS

About emuse technologies
Dublin-based emuse technologies was founded in 1998 by serial entrepreneur Patrick Rainsford to develop a suite of enabling technologies to service the burgeoning global interactive television market. emuse has now succeeded in creating, developing and patenting those technologies and aligning with key players in the arena. The company now employs 70 people and has built a world-class team of software, media, mobile, content, business and technology experts with offices in Dublin, London, and Tokyo, and LA. Web: www.emusetechnologies.com

For more information contact:
NDS
Margot Field
Director of PR
NDS Group plc
Ph: + 44 (0)208 476 8158

Kelly Fitzgerald
Managing Partner
Breakaway Communications for NDS
Ph: +1 212-590-2555
Email: kfitz@breakawaycom.com

emuse technologies
Donal O'Connor
Product Manager
emuse technologies
Ph: +353 1 671 7317
Email: d.oconnor@emuse-tech.com

Cyril Moloney
Herald Communications for emuse
Ph: +44 20 7395 7070
Email: cmoloney@heraldcommunications.com