Advanced Television

CA/DRM

Movile selects Irdeto

Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform security, has announced that Movile has selected Irdeto Rights to manage the multi-DRM support and content protection of its popular PlayKids platform, extending its device reach. Irdeto’s DRM-agnostic solution, which includes support for Apple FairPlay Streaming, will protect Movile’s newly-licensed high-value video entertainment from Disney and The Cartoon Network. […]

March 4, 2016

Foxtel selects Unified Streaming

Unified Streaming, a provider of cross-platform video streaming technologies, has been selected by Foxtel, the Australian media company, to create and optimise Foxtel’s streaming platform enabling delivery of Foxtel’s premium live and on demand programming across multiple devices. Unified Streaming’s feature set aligns with Foxtel’s device roadmap and will utilise TransDRM to transform Foxtel’s pre-encrypted […]

February 26, 2016

MIPTV reshaping for digital era

Executives at TV programming market MIPTV are reshaping the 2016 event better to reflect the digital era. Laurine Garaude, Director of Reed MIDEM’s Television Division, said that to differentiate the April event from its younger sibling MIPCOM, scheduled for October, there was a big focus on innovation, digital and new technology. Speaking at a Press […]

February 24, 2016By Colin Mann

AMC Networks secures content with NexGuard

NexGuard, a provider of forensic watermarking technology and solutions, has announced that AMC Networks is deploying the NexGuard forensic watermarking system at its New York, NY facilities. AMC Networks, the company behind the hit television shows The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul among many others, owns and operates several of the most popular and […]

February 23, 2016

Intertrust partners with Civolution

Intertrust Technologies Corporation has added session-based video watermarking capabilities from Civolution’s NexGuard to its ExpressPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) service. NexGuard watermarking technology allows copyright holders to identify the source of unauthorised distribution even after a movie leaves the encrypted digital domain of a DRM system. The accountability provided by NexGuard session-based watermarking has already […]

February 18, 2016

Piracy marketing platform from MUSO

Content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO has revealed what it describes as a major new addition to its range of market analytics and audience connection products with the launch of Retune, developed to help rights owners market their content directly to piracy audiences, and enable those audiences to reconnect to licensed content. According to […]

February 8, 2016By Colin Mann

Automated IPTV anti-piracy service from Friend MTS

Content and platform security specialist Friend MTS is ramping up the fight against video piracy with the introduction of Viper, which it says is the first technology-led anti-piracy solution specifically designed to tackle the growing threat from illegal IPTV set-top boxes. Friend MTS will showcase the solution at the CABSAT show in Dubai in March. […]

February 3, 2016By Colin Mann

Viaccess-Orca launches cloud-based TV Everywhere

Content services protection and enhancement specialist Viaccess-Orca has launched Voyage – TV Everywhere as a Service (TVaaS), a new cloud-based over-the-top (OTT)/TV Everywhere (TVE) service designed to simplify multiscreen service delivery, increasing flexibility, reducing costs, and speeding up service launch times for operators. Running on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure, Voyage – TVaaS is integrated […]

January 28, 2016

OTT is necessary, can it also be profitable?

OTT provision is now part of the mainstream – but is also still evolving rapidly. All TV providers, pay and FTA, now feel obliged to supply catch up and back catalogue services. Mainly they are cost centres without much prospect of becoming profit centres. What next? And where will the money come from? Advanced Television […]

January 18, 2016

Multimedia Polska selects Teleste

Teleste has reached an agreement with Multimedia Polska on the development of a next generation TV content delivery system. The platform will support delivery of innovative new TV services to subscribers of Multimedia. Under the agreement, Teleste will deliver video processing and Content Delivery Network products and technologies. Additionally, Teleste Ubique SW Suite will be […]

January 12, 2016