[updated:LAST EDITED ON 30-Jan-02 AT 10:09 AM (GMT)]Found this...
"Videoguard CAM prototype revealed
Conditional Access Module manufacturer SCM Microsystems has released the first prototype of a Videoguard CI CAM. The Videoguard encryption system is owned by Rupert Murdoch's NDS (News Data Systems), and is currently used by the UK's Sky Digital, Italy's Stream and Greece's telecommunication organization OTE. A release date for the CI CAM is currently unknown, although the availability is expected to be restricted to official Videoguard subscribers. Availability restriction of the CAM will prevent the piracy of Videoguard, which has yet to be commercially hacked. France's X-Sat and Germany's TechniSat both have an approved licence to produce receivers using integrated Videoguard. "
Taken from http://hyperion.spaceports.com/~server09/pages/satellites.html
And this:
Translated badly to english
It was from that it gets passionate you to it of tv via satellite of all Europe waited for it and finally here the announcement: the SCM, società specialized in the realization of modules US, has begun the production of the Cam Common Interface Videoguard di Nds (News Digital Systems). For hour the società "sfornato" only some prototype and the date of the commercialization è still be announced. These cam will allow the vision (with appropriate smart card) of some important pay tv European which: Stream (Italy), Sky Digital (United Kingdom) and Ote (Greece), even if remain to see if they will be compatible with all the pay tv listed.
It seems to be made by a company called SCM Microsystem’s see http://www.scmmicro.com/dvb/cam.html
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