Cryptography Research and Verimatrix, specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services, have inked a deal that sees Verimatrix license Cryptography Research’s CryptoFirewall security core technology to help build advanced solutions protecting video delivery revenue streams. “Content piracy and theft of service are major commercial concerns for our system operator customers, as […]
NDS has launched its next generation DRM solution for multi-platform pay-TV: VideoGuard Connect. It says the solution provides end-to-end protection of an operator’s service, using the unique security capabilities of each individual platform. VideoGuard Connect is designed to help TV operators to seamlessly extend their pay-TV services to connected media devices. It enables the secure […]
Dish TV, India’s largest direct-to-home operator, is set to launch Conditional Access Module (CAM), that will enable consumers with set-top boxes of other DTH service providers to switch to Dish TV’s feed of television channels. The product, branded as Dish Freedom, is priced at Rs 990, which includes an annual subscription of 95 channels. […]
Onlive is to launch its cloud-based gaming service in the UK on September 22nd. The system, which has been available in the US for more than a year, allows users to play games without a console. Processing is done in data centres on specialised servers and streamed over the Internet. The company says it hopes […]
Time Warner has confirmed that it is to introduce UltraViolet, the technology that bridges a single piece of content to a variety of devices, to its home movies the coming autumn. Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner’s chairman and chief executive, told analysts during a conference call that two movies, Horrible Bosses and Green Lantern, would be […]
Mobile Digital Television is on track to reach two-thirds of US households by early 2012, as dozens of TV broadcast stations are now installing new transmission equipment that will allow live, local TV signals to reach viewers wherever they go in a local market. Based on a new survey of member plans, the Open Mobile […]
Monaco Telecom is preparing to launch a new service enabling customers to view its IPTV video on demand service on other wireless-enabled devices such as tablet computers. Monaco Telecom will be the first telecoms operator to provide the nCloud, a multimedia server created by specialist IPTV set-top box provider Netgem. Monaco Telecom launched an IPTV […]
SmarDTV, a Kudelski Group company, has started shipping its latest SmarCAM-3 CI Plus modules into the Austrian retail markets in collaboration with a number of distribution partners. These modules provide secure access to ORF and pay TV services, as well as all services in the region relaying on the Irdeto Conditional Access. Subscribers can now […]
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), an open, cross-industry consortium of more than 70 companies dedicated to facilitating the development and operation of the UltraViolet ecosystem, has launched a licensing programme for content, technology and service providers. DECE expects that, beginning this autumn, consumers in the US will be able to purchase select movies and […]
Findings from a survey conducted by renowned consulting firm Accenture suggest that an ‘overwhelming’ majority (91 per cent) of senior executives of media and entertainment companies admit that they are not taking full advantage of customer data that can deliver customised content, leaving them ill-prepared to seize the revenue opportunities of today’s digital technologies. The […]