Thomas Bremond, GM of International Advanced Advertising at FreeWheel and Charlie Johnson, VP, UK and Northern Ireland at Digital Element have offered their predictions for the advanced TV sector in 2018, highlighting the importance of advertising experiences and the need to focus on VPNS. Bremond commented: “After a year when transparency, brand safety and viewability […]
Digital security and end-to-end convergent media solutions specialist Kudelski Group has revealed a number of initiatives aimed at ensuring the Group’s growth and success over the long term, with the Digital TV division widely transformed. The Group has continued its efforts to align its digital TV operations with the new market realities. The Group activities […]
Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform security, has published its annual predictions looking at the content delivery and security trends in media and entertainment for 2018. The e-book, Disruptive Technologies, Consolidation and Cybersecurity: 2018 Trends in the Connected World, features commentary from multiple Irdeto and industry thought leaders. Topics include the growing competition from OTT […]
Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform security, has announced that StarGroup, a telecommunication service provider in Mexico, has selected Irdeto to secure the distribution of content to its 100,000 pay-TV subscribers. Serving 22 states in the Republic of Mexico, StarGroup will leverage Irdeto Cloaked CA to securely deliver premium content through its StarTV service. This […]
BuyDRM and Bitmovin have partnered with sports-first streaming TV service fuboTV. As part of the deployment, Bitmovin will provide fuboTV with cloud-based encoding and encryption via the Bitmovin Encoding platform integrated with BuyDRM’s KeyOS Encryption Key API. BuyDRM will in-turn provide DRM licensing services to fuboTV’s end users around the world via the KeyOS MultiKey […]
Viaccess-Orca, a global player in the protection and monetisation of content, has collaborated with Rambus, a lspecialist in digital security, services, semiconductor, and IP products, to strengthen its VO Shield Root of Trust (RoT) solution for dynamic, best-in-class security. The CryptoMedia Content Protection Core from Rambus complements VO Shield by enabling a hardware RoT to […]
Digital platform security specialist Irdeto has extended its long-standing security partnership with Foxtel, Australia’s leading pay-TV operator, with the aim of providing Foxtel with a reliable and stable security partner that will ensure premium content is securely delivered across any device, minimising revenue leakage from all forms of piracy. Irdeto Cloaked CA will now securely […]
Video piracy – the copying and selling copyrighted content – has been around since the advent of the VHS tape and home video recording in 1979, notes market intelligence firm ABI Research. Today, video piracy has shifted from pirated set-top boxes to content redistribution over broadband networks. The most common forms of piracy today include […]
Seven people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal broadcasting of football matches, offering the pirated content in different formats: direct download, streaming and P2P distribution. The arrests were carried out in an operation undertaken by Spain’s Policía Nacional (National Police) in Madrid, Alicante, Albacete, Antequera (Málaga) and in the Valencian cities of Gandía […]
Cisco Systems is reportedly looking for a buyer for its former NDS video software division, Cisco Videoscape. Bloomberg is quoting people familiar with the process, adding that Cisco is looking to sharpen its focus in the extremely fast-changing network infrastructure business. Cisco paid around $5 billion for NDS back in 2012. Cisco sold the former […]