Advanced Television

CA/DRM

Irdeto for Turk Telecom pay-TV

Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform security, will be providing security for a new Tivibu satellite pay-TV service from Turk Telecom Group, the leading telco Turkey. Irdeto’s Media Access and Management services use Irdeto CA to give Turk Telecom Group strong, renewable security across new DVB-S STBs that offer content to non-fibre customers. The introduction […]

September 14, 2015Nick Snow @ IBC

Sky, Cisco extend alliance

Cisco has announced that Sky will extend its collaboration with Cisco for set top box middleware solutions, supporting Sky’s expansion of products and services to an even wider audience. The companies have a long-standing relationship working together to change the face of video entertainment services, including, as announced in January, their collaboration on the Sky […]

September 11, 2015

Viaccess-Orca Adaptive Sentinel

Viaccess-Orca, a global player in the protection and enhancement of content services, has unveiled Adaptive Sentinel, a new converged card and cardless conditional access system (CAS) that it says offers “an unprecedented ease of transition between the two technologies, unified over an end-to-end solution architecture”. Adaptive Sentinel supports a wide range of business models, including […]

September 4, 2015

ASiD test for Friend MTS content protection

Content and platform security specialist Friend MTS is ramping up the fight against video piracy with the launch of its new content protection service ASiD (Advanced Subscriber iDentification). ASiD is an ultra-lightweight subscriber identification technology that enables both traditional broadcasters and OTT providers to identify and shut down unauthorised streams within minutes. It works by […]

August 3, 2015By Colin Mann

Civolution sells Teletrax to focus on content protection

Civolution, the specialist provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetising content, has sold its TV Analytics and TV Synced Ads business Teletrax to data science company 4C, enabling company management and its R&D resources to focus entirely on content protection through its NexGuard forensic watermarking business The acquisition of the Teletrax business […]

July 31, 2015By Colin Mann

Conax to demo hosted IPTV solutions based on the future-ready Conax Contego at ABTA

Conax, part of the Kudelski Group and a player in total service protection for digital TV and entertainment services via broadcast, broadband and connected devices, announced at ABTA 2015 , August 4th – 6th, the content security specialist will demonstrate  its new Conax Contego multi-DRM capabilities supporting a portfolio of  leading DRM technologies and shielding […]

July 30, 2015

CAS market to reach $4.7bn by 2022

According to a market report published by Transparency Market Research, the global conditional access systems market was valued at $2.3 billion (€2.1bn) in 2014 and is estimated to reach $4.7 billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 10.3 per cent from 2015 to 2022. North America was the largest contributor, in terms of revenue to the […]

July 8, 2015

Cloud boosts video infrastructure network spending

Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that revenue growth from video infrastructure network hardware and software is far outstripping growth from client hardware and software. While revenue from all video infrastructure grew by 7 per cent on a rolling year-on-year basis, growth in network hardware and software came in at 10 per cent and […]

June 24, 2015

DVB-C/DTT solution from SMIT

Conditional Access Module specialist SMIT has unveiled the SMIT iCast Dongle, the new generation of SMiT secure device, allows TV subscribers to watch high quality Cable/DTT live programming on an Android TV or Box through customised pre-installed iCast application, which requires nearly no extra work for manufacturers to integrate within. iCast Dongle supports mainstream pay-TV […]

June 9, 2015Nick Snow @ ANGA COM