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Unitend Technologies Inc.

Unitend Technologies Inc. (the Company hereafter) is a professional Universal Transport Interface (UTI) technology firm established through collective efforts of the National Government, Tsinghua University, and other industrial partners. The Company joined hands with Tsinghua University to launch the Tsinghua-Unitend Digital TV Removable User ID Module (DRM) Research Institute for the industrialization and marketing promotion and applications of UTI technology. The Company is specialized in developing and manufacturing UTI-based series of technology and products such as UTI core chips, UTI cards, UTI foundation software, and UTI system solutions. The Company is Initiator and Secretariat of the China UTI Consortium for promotion of the UTI standards and building of a UTI Alliance. Simutaneously, as a key member of the China DRM Standards Group, the Company retains the core DRM technologies and products. Unitend Technology, on the basis of China’s independent innovation, is actively acquiring advanced technologies from all over the world, and have been successful in developing a series of highly marketable UTI products that meet actual needs of their users.

Products and Services

The T-USB chip for UTI standard interface introduced by the company was the first USB-2.0 interface chip in the world specially designed for digital TV applications, widely recognized by industrial players for its exceptional quality, performance as well as flexibility and convenience in application development. It is the first choice for interface expansion on TV sets and set-top boxes. “Lower cost” and “higher performance” are the two directions in which the Company is developing its UTI chip products.

The UTI-enhanced CA card developed by the company is not only a simple CA module, but one for diversified value-added applications for different regional markets. Together with channel modules, it can adapt to all sorts of channel standards at low costs, which for the first time enables the nationwide deployment of unitary digital TV sets, and bridges the divide between digital TV operators under huge financial pressure and long-awaiting color TV set manufacturers. The more than 30 member operators and manufacturers in the UTI Consortium are substantially benefiting from such technology. 

The modem-embedded, and UTI-enhanced CA card successfully introduced by the Company is able to instantly convert the astronomical personal computers already in service into hyper-capacity DTV terminals, which leads to optimal integration of content-rich broadcasting operators and PC software and hardware manufacturers known for their innovation. It would be the best news for PC users who desire high-quality and interactive digital TV programs.
Last but not least, the Company was successful in the development of UTI-related DRM products, the powerful propellers behind the conversion of play-and-store TV sets into an economic ecological system with genuine commercial values.

Design Capabilities

Innovative USB interface-based Removable User ID Module for digital TV: it innovatively adopted the USB 2.0 interface, and built a systematic set of UTI protocols to the uniqueness of digital TV sector in China. It not only enabled a removable CA User ID Module, but also made value-added applications (such as EPG, data broadcasting, and other middleware components) independent to universal master units. 

The Company is specialized in developing and manufacturing UTI-based series of technology and products such as UTI core chips, UTI cards, UTI foundation software, and UTI system solutions.

The Company is Initiator and Secretariat of the China UTI Consortium for promotion of the UTI standards and building of a UTI Alliance. Simutaneously, as a key member of the China DRM Standards Group, the Company retains the core DRM technologies and products.

Unitend Technology, on the basis of China’s independent innovation, is actively acquiring advanced technologies from all over the world, and have been successful in developing a series of highly marketable UTI products that meet actual needs of their users.

Advantages

- Technology advantage

Independent designing and breakthroughs in core UTI technology: China now holds all intellectual property rights for core technologies ranging from UTI protocol to critical UTI chips, which lays a solid technological foundation for proactive and rapid development of China’s own digital TV industry, circumvents patent traps like those bothering the DVD publishers and DVD player manufacturers in the country, and calls for possible overseas adoption of such protocol and technologies.

Innovative USB interface-based Removable User ID Module for digital TV: Unlike decade-old technologies developed abroad, the new module keeps itself in line with the latest trend of development in serial-to-serial high-speed digital transmission. The developers innovatively adopted the USB 2.0 interface, and built a systematic set of UTI protocols to the uniqueness of digital TV sector in China. They not only enabled a removable CA User ID Module, but also made value-added applications (such as EPG, data broadcasting, and other middleware components) independent to universal master units. 

- Industry Advantages

Unitend is in charge of the core technologies of UTI standard, it is at the top-end of the industry chain and with the high profit margin, rely on its information, technology, and technology advantages, powerful support from government, Unitend with continue to maintain it’s industry advantages.

- Industry and policy advantage

DTV industry is fast developing these years, and UTI CA separation standard has been published as the Electronic Industry Standardization, and got the support from government. It will resolve the bottle neck problems within DTV industry.

- Partnership Advantage

The company built the close cooperation relationship with the main enterprises within the industry (Tsinghua University); STB Enterprises (Shenzhen COSHIP, Sichuan Jiuzhou, Tsinghua Tongfang Computer, BOE, Shenzhen Cyber, Shenzhen SAST); CA technology enterprises (Tongfang, DVN, China Crypt, NDS); TV set enterprises (Shenzhen, Skyworth, Sichuan Changhong, TCL, Konka, Qingdao Haier, Panda Electronics Group, Jiangxi Greatsource Display Tech Co., Beijing Peony, PRIMA); Research and testing unit (The third research institute of CETC); Net operation pilot units (Hebei Cable TV Network Comporation、Shenzhen Topway、Radio & TV Bureau of Qingdao); The development units of customer management software (Beijing Sida Time Communication Technologies Ltd.).