Content Protection (conditional access, DRM, watermarking, …) News

Avinity Systems and Neotion bring interactive applications to CI Plus TVs
May 25, 2009 – Avinity Systems and Neotion have integrated their offerings to bring applications such as VoD navigation, interactive ads and accessing web video to TV sets with CI Plus capability, without the need for a separate two way Set Top Box.
News categories: Neotion, Avinity Systems, ANGA COM, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Set Top Box, Smart TV

ViXS Enables New Hitachi HD Flat Panel TVs with built-in HDD
May 21, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that the XCode® 3290 has been selected by Hitachi (Tokyo:6501; NYSE:HIT) to enable their latest generation of HD Flat Panel TVs featuring a built-in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for Personal Video Recording (PVR).
News categories: ViXS Systems, Hitachi, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, ISDB-T, Japan, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Cabot Becomes First Middleware Vendor to Complete SmarDTV CI+ Testing
May 19, 2009 – Cabot Communications has announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing between its CI Plus (CI+) software solution and the SmarDTV (SWX:KUD) CI+ reference module, becoming the first middleware vendor known to do so.
News categories: Cabot, SmarDTV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Globo and Thomson to develop rural digital TV for Brazil
May 18, 2009 – Brazil's Globo is planning a rural digital TV system, called TVDR, to replace the 15 million satellite dishes that currently receive analogue free-to-air signals in the country. The system will use set-top boxes from Thomson (Paris:18453; NYSE: TMS).
News categories: Thomson, Globo, Brazil, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Latens Demonstrates Pay-TV Cable Delivery at ANGA
May 14, 2009 – As the cable industry gears up to maximise the benefits of digital television, Latens is showcasing the most secure, future-proof and cost-effective systems on the market at the ANGA show in Cologne from May 26-28 (stand B44).
News categories: Latens, ANGA COM, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, DOCSIS, IPTV, Middleware

China Digital TV Announces Unaudited First Quarter 2009 Results
May 12, 2009 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. The company shipped approximately 2.38 million smart cards during the first quarter, an increase of 3.3% from the corresponding period in 2008.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results

SecureMedia CA/DRM integrated with TVBLOB's BLOBbox
May 12, 2009 – SecureMedia and TVBLOB have announced that TVBLOB's TV-centric development platform and hybrid internet set-top boxes (BLOBbox), that bring the power of the Web directly to TV is protected by SecureMedia's Encryptonite ONE™ System CA/DRM.
News categories: TVBLOB, SecureMedia, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Set Top Box, Streaming

Telenor (Canal Digital) subscribers fall in Q1
May 5, 2009 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2009. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 17,000 and the number of Telenor cable subscribers fell by 7,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

PT Telkom Group Selects Irdeto for DVB-H Mobile TV in Indonesia
Apr 30, 2009 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) has announced that it has been chosen to supply the Conditional Access (CA) and DRM solutions based on the DVB-H Mobile TV architecture for PT Telkom Group's mobile subsidiary, Telkomsel.
News categories: Irdeto, PT Telkom, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DRM, Indonesia, Mobile