| Navigating Content Security Requirements
for Multi-Screen Video |
A Service Provider's Guide to Licensing and Protecting Content in a Dynamic Landscape
Verimatrix teamed with Bill Rosenblatt from GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies to develop the most comprehensive guide available today on how TV Everywhere-type services are affecting traditional licensing and security rules. |
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| Based on extensive research with major Hollywood studios and other content owners, we share the many subtleties of content protection requirements that exist today for multi-screen services. Our examination of content owners' policies reveals important benchmarks and trends in content security and licensing criteria. |
| This paper is a must-read to gain a deeper understanding of strategies that protect your revenue streams, while meeting content owners' licensing requirements, and where these technologies are headed in the future. |
| Whether you are a traditional managed-network operator or an OTT video startup, you need to know what protection technologies the studios will expect as you plan new offerings. |
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In June, I wrote about the early release window (EWR) experiment, and the great debate surrounding the viability of premium Video on Demand (VoD) content. With the end of 2011 drawing near, now is a good a time to review the year's development on that topic. |
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| At this point it seems we should move beyond the enabling regulations and technical obstacles surrounding premium VoD and instead concern ourselves with market dynamics - who might be the big winners and losers. |
| Despite some changing dynamics in content licensing and security, technology is not the long pole in the tent any more for operators, but rather licensing terms and subscriber adoption - at least for early adopters. And we are clearly still in the experimental phase of verifying if a home theater movie experience in a similar release window as theatrical release provides a viable business upside. |
| There are still a significant number of unknowns, but continued experiments provide some interesting insights. |
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Tom Munro Shortlisted for Euro50 Technology Leader
This has been a very busy year for us here at Verimatrix, full of challenges, opportunities, milestones and recognition, including multiple award nominations and wins. One such nod was for our CEO and Chief Visionary, Tom Munro, who was shortlisted for |
| a Euro50 Award in the Technology Leader category for his contributions to the pay-TV industry as a whole. |
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| Tom was recognized alongside other industry visionaries, including Mario Pino from Etisalat, at the Awards gala in London, where we were delighted to host a dynamic mix of partners and customers at our table. |
| As part of its Awards coverage, Digital TV Europe asked Tom to reflect on his accomplishments in 2011, and provide his vision for 2012. |
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Divitel has established a reputation as an independent solutions provider |
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| & systems integrator for professional, digital video systems. Its Divisio hosted service solution is a turnkey iDTV multi-platform service, based on an HTML-5 widget-based “open middleware” philosophy that offers operators the flexibility to develop their own applications or acquire them from Divitel. |
| VCAS for Internet TV has been integrated to provide the revenue security component for multi-screen video services delivered OTT. Entone's Hybrid TV devices and digital video recorders (DVRs) are also incorporated into the Divisio platform. The hybrid solution supports a variety of video delivery networks, including cable, satellite, terrestrial, fiber, DSL, broadband wireless and hybrid. |
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Network Broadcast is a multinational leader in the development and integration |
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| of digital TV systems with a strong presence in Latin America. The company provides end-to-end solutions for UHF, cable, satellite, and IP for both the private and public industries and has offices throughout the region in close proximity to our customers. Network Broadcast remains at the forefront of developing and integrating equipment that represents the state of the art of digital television. |
| We are working with Network Broadcast to bring both DVB and OTT solutions to Latin America to offer a complete multi-network, multi-screen security platform. |
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| The X Factor: Do you have what it takes? |
| Verimatrix is looking for talented people to join our growing and globally diverse staff. Here are two positions that we are highlighting this month: |
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- Verimatrix's 4th Photography Competition winners
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