Conditional Access (CA) News

Verimatrix Content Security Chosen for Win Multimedia's WinTV
Jun 17, 2008 – Verimatrix has announced that Win Multimedia, Thailand's leading IPTV Operator and Multimedia Service Provider company, has selected Verimatrix to protect its Digital Television Channels and video-on-demand service of WinTV.
News categories: Verimatrix, Win Multimedia, BroadcastAsia, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Thailand

SIDSA takes DVB-H mobile TV to Asia
Jun 16, 2008 – The leading supplier of mobile TV technology SIDSA will exhibit its complete solutions for DVB-H mobile TV at the fair, from demodulator chipsets to complete fully interoperable turn-key solutions.
News categories: SIDSA, BroadcastAsia, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Mobile, Semiconductor

Verimatrix Announces Mobile TV Content Security Solution for Pay-TV Operators
Jun 16, 2008 – Verimatrix has announced the full profile of its comprehensive VCAS™ for Mobile TV solution to enable operators to deliver a seamless pay-TV service over mobile phones and other mobile Internet devices (MIDs).
News categories: Verimatrix, Tata Elxsi, BroadcastAsia, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile

Widevine® Connects Cable, Telco and Satellite Services to Apple, Adobe and RealNetworks Players
Jun 16, 2008 – Widevine has announced an enhancement to Widevine Cypher® that converts MPEG2 TS (transport streams) on a PC so they are recognizable by Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) Flash, Apple (Nasdaq: APPL) QuickTime and RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) RealPlayer.
News categories: Widevine, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming, Watermarking

Irdeto Provides Indian MSO with DVB Content & Revenue Protection Solution
Jun 11, 2008 – Irdeto (JSE:NPN), has inked a deal to deliver its latest DVB conditional access system to Bangalore-based MSO Atria Convergence Technologies (ACT). The phased roll-out of the Irdeto solution will be completed over a 30-month period.
News categories: Irdeto, Atria Convergence Technologies, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, India

DVN Wins the Bid for Jilin Digital TV
Jun 10, 2008 – DVN (SEHK: 500) has won the bidding for the Simulcrypt CA System for digital television in Jilin Province. The contract involves 500,000 intelligent cards for the CA, with a sales order for approximately 500,000 set-top boxes to follow in the coming days.
News categories: DVN Group, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Set Top Box

Cisco, Motorola and NDS Take Control of DCAS
Jun 6, 2008 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) and NDS Group (Nasdaq: NNDS) have taken over the architecture work and some degree of the implementation of the downloadable conditional access system (DCAS) project initially managed by PolyCipher.
News categories: PolyCipher, Motorola, Cisco, NDS, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, USA

Latens and ZyXEL Partner to Offer IPTV Operators a Flexible CA Security and STB Solution
Jun 3, 2008 – Latens and ZyXEL Communications (TSE: 2391) have announced that the two companies have partnered to offer low-cost, highly secure IP/hybrid set-top box (STB) solutions.
News categories: Latens, ZyXEL Communications, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

China Digital TV Chosen as Conditional Access System Provider by Hebei Media Information Network Holdings Co., Ltd.
May 29, 2008 – China Digital TV Holding (NYSE: STV) has announced that the company has been chosen as the conditional access (CA) system provider to Hebei Media Information Network Holdings Co., Ltd. (Hebei TV Network).
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV