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MacRobert Award
1999 Finalist
NDS Limited for Digital Terrestrial Television
[News Release]
 This team of MacRobert Award finalists is made up of members who have committed much of the last ten years to the development of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV).
In fact, research team leader Arthur Mason
was awarded an OBE in 1997 as ‘the Father of
Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting’.
NDS has been responsible for the pioneering DTTV research and development at the heart of the commercial DTTV services in the UK today. It has over 90% of the UK market for DTTV modulation technology and the majority of the head-end digital equipment sales to date.
NDS was chosen as a MacRobert Award finalist for its development of the technologies that have allowed six digital multiplexes with a potential capacity to carry between 30 and 60 new TV programmes, to fit into the already crowded UHF broadcast band. It had previously been believed that there was capacity for a maximum of five channels alone.
The chief innovation has been in the use of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and a large number of carriers to overcome transmission problems such as ghosting and interference.
Today, in Britain, it is NDS receivers, encoders and multiplexers that are being used in the provision of digital television.
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