Minerva Networks, a provider of next-generation service management platforms for connected entertainment has integrated with the Verimatrix Viewthority connected content distribution platform and its YourTV Now cloud hosted service. Building on its recent deployment of the Verimatrix MultiRights OTT solution for multi-DRM support, YourTV Now can integrate with Viewthority to create a solution that combines […]
Set-top box System-on-Chip (SoC) provider Telechips has been certified by video software provider Synamedia’s 4K CAS (Conditional Access System) solution. With Synamedia’s 4K CAS certification, Lion will provide customers with ultra-low power features and enhanced security solutions. In addition, Lion has supported Android TV Pie version, the integration with Android TV Pie and Synamedia’s 4K […]
Cloud-based video experience solutions provider Linius Technologies has successfully tested what it claims is the world’s first video blockchain, opening new distribution, protection and monetisation possibilities to the global video industry. By applying its video virtualisation technology, Linius successfully used smart contracts to control and transact video as a digital asset within blockchain – for […]
As the negotiations on the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market are drawing to a conclusion, European and international authors and performers’ organisations from all sectors are urging the EU negotiators to strengthen the much-needed Article -14 providing for fair and proportionate remuneration for authors and performers, and to adopt Articles 14, […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has extended its content protection partnership with kbro, Taiwan’s number one cable operator, to include the service provider’s new 4K service delivered over a hybrid cable and OTT network. A NAGRA customer since 2009, kbro has deployed NAGRA Connect in […]
Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division of the Kudelski Group, has launched its Blockchain Security Center (BSC), making available its cryptography expertise into the rapidly evolving blockchain developer community. Expanding upon the company’s security services, the BSC will provide new offerings and has a concrete roadmap to develop foundational technologies that help integrate security into and […]
Cloud-based end-to-end theatrical planning, booking, and settlement system CinemaCloudWorks has launched its ‘SmartScreeners’ secure movie screeners service, powered by iScreeningRoom. A Digital TV Research report showed that in 2016 approximately $31.8 billion dollars in revenue was lost as a result of piracy – a number that will reach $52 billion by 2022 in the US […]
A ‘reveal all’ website has been published by pay-TV operator beIN Media Group which it claims publicly exposes what it describes as the “industrial scale theft” of world sports and entertainment carried out by beoutQ – the Saudi Arabia-based pirate TV channel – and Arabsat – the Riyadh-headquartered satellite provider – for the past 18 […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates finds 16 per cent of US broadband households admit to sharing their passwords for their video service accounts with other people. Innovations in Authentication and Personalization Technologies reports that service providers will have a difficult time moving subscribers to new methods of password-free authentication. Only one-third or fewer of […]
Content protection and multiscreen television solutions specialist NAGRA has confirmed that global telco Telefónica has deployed the NAGRA Security Services Platform (SSP) managing the NAGRA Connect client to secure its Movistar IPTV service and 4K Ultra HD content in multiple countries with newest STBs. The announcement marks the first deployment of the NAGRA SSP and […]