Conditional Access (CA) News

Smart Com Deploys Verimatrix Content Security for T-2 IPTV Service
Oct 1, 2007 – Verimatrix and Smart Com, the leading European IPTV middleware vendor and IPTV system integrator, have announced the successful deployment of Verimatrix's Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for T-2's IPTV deployment.
News categories: Smart Com, T-2, Verimatrix, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Slovenia

Verimatrix Content Security Selected for Qatar IPTV Service
Sep 24, 2007 – Verimatrix has announced that it is providing the security solution for the world's first fully integrated IPTV triple-play deployment in Qatar.
News categories: Verimatrix, Qtel, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Qatar, Set Top Box

Download Incomplete
Sep 24, 2007 – CableCards Should Be Obsolete. But After More Than Two Years, a $100 Million Project to Send Security Controls Digitally to Set-Top Boxes and TV Sets Still Hasn't Delivered.
News categories: PolyCipher, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, USA

China Digital TV Files for Initial Public Offering
Sep 21, 2007 – China Digital TV Holding Co., Ltd. is offering 12,000,000 American depositary shares, or ADSs, each representing one ordinary share and anticipates that the initial public offering price of the ADSs will be between $11 and $13 per ADS.
News categories: China Digital TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPO

Widevine Technologies Announces New, Enhanced CableCard
Sep 20, 2007 – Widevine® Technologies has announced the immediate availability of the Widevine CableCard. This QAM and IP-based hardware solution enables multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) to provide two-way downloadable conditional access solution for protecting premium content delivery to any device with a CableCard slot.
News categories: Widevine, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial, USA, Watermarking

TelecomView Study Measures TelcoTV Opportunities for Service Providers and Systems Companies
Sep 17, 2007 – The global growth of TelcoTV services has demonstrated that significant opportunities exist. TelecomView's new report "Opportunities in TelcoTV: Forecast & Market Shares - 2006 to 2012" sizes the available opportunities and identifies which companies are most likely to capitalize on it.
News categories: TelecomView, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

S3 and Nagravision Deliver Pre-Integrated Software To Pay TV Operators and STB Manufacturers
Sep 8, 2007 – Silicon & Software Systems (S3) has announced that it signed an agreement with Nagravision, a Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD) company, to provide highly integrated software solutions to the pay TV operator and Set-Top Box (STB) manufacturer markets.
News categories: Nagravision, Silicon & Software Systems (S3), Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Software

Irdeto, Amino and Anevia to Provide Innovative DVB over IP Solution to Pay TV Operators Worldwide
Sep 7, 2007 – Irdeto together with Amino and Anevia have announced a joint IPTV solution that enables Telcos to provide existing DVB services to their customers via their IP networks.
News categories: Irdeto, Amino, Anevia, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box

Irdeto Digital TV Solution Chosen by NTF for New French Digital Terrestrial Pay Television Service
Sep 7, 2007 – Irdeto has finalized an exclusive customer agreement with Neotion TNT France (NTF) to provide its Irdeto Digital TV conditional access (CA) solution for NTF's new digital terrestrial television (DTT) pay TV service in France.
News categories: Irdeto, Neotion, Conditional Access, Digital TV, France, IBCShow, Terrestrial