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

China Digital TV Partners with Microsoft to Launch PC-TV Tuner Solution for Windows Vista
Dec 3, 2008 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced the availability of a new PC-TV tuner solution which will allow computer users throughout China to watch and record scrambled digital cable television programming on their PCs.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Peripherals / Accessories

Naspers Limited Interim Results
Nov 26, 2008 – Naspers (JSE:NPN, LSE:NPSN) has announced its results for the six months ended September 2008. Pay-television (Multichoice) recorded exceptionally strong growth of 171,000 new subscribers. Irdeto shipped 8.3m units in 1H FY08.
News categories: Naspers, Multichoice, Irdeto, Angola, Conditional Access, Content Protection, DRM, Ghana, Kenya, Middleware, Mobile, Namibia, Nigeria, Results, Satellite, South Africa, Subscribers, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Magyar Telekom to launch satellite TV service
Nov 24, 2008 – Magyar Telekom (NYSE: MTA)(Budapest: MTELEKOM) has launched a nationwide satellite TV service under the brand T-Home Sat TV. Magyar Telekom now offers TV services on three different platforms: cable TV, IPTV and satellite TV.
News categories: Magyar Telekom, T-Home, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVB-S2, Hungary, Satellite

Airfield Media Group Selects Eutelsat's HOT BIRD™ Neighbourhood To Broadcast Belgian French-Language Channels In Its TéléSAT Platform
Nov 20, 2008 – Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) has announced the signature of a contract with Airfield Media Group for satellite capacity at the HOT BIRD™ video neighbourhood to broadcast the five Belgian French-language channels in the new TéléSAT, pay-TV platform.
News categories: Eutelsat, TéléSAT, Belgium, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Satellite

Cloakware Introduces High-Security Software Solutions for North American Cable Operators
Nov 20, 2008 – Cloakware has announced that its technology will be made available to cable operators and CA vendors to meet requirements for software-based set-top box security in the North American market. Irdeto (JSE: NPN) will be the first such CA provider.
News categories: Cloakware, Irdeto, Cable TV, Canada, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, North America, Set Top Box, Software, USA

Uzbekistan introduces digital TV broadcasting
Nov 17, 2008 – Uzbekistan has started the introduction of digital television broadcasting, which should complete by 2015. Pilot zones have been launched in two cities - Tashkent and Bukhara.
News categories: Conditional Access, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, Uzbekistan

Mediaset: approval for the results of the first 9 months of 2008
Nov 11, 2008 – The Board of Directors of Mediaset (Italy: MS) has approved the company's quarterly report. On 30 September, active Mediaset Premium cards totalled around 2.5 million, compared with around 1.6 million in the first nine months of 2007.
News categories: Mediaset, CAM, Italy, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

ART selects Viaccess to secure its pay-TV platforms for the Middle-Eastern market
Nov 11, 2008 – Viaccess (Paris & NYSE: FTE) has announced that ART (Arab Radio and Television Network) will deploy Viaccess' Praha card to secure its Pay TV satellite platforms in the Middle East region.
News categories: Viaccess, Arab Radio and Television Network, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middle-East, Satellite

Verimatrix and Falcon to Deliver Secure IPTV Service to GTel Teleconnections
Nov 11, 2008 – Verimatrix has announced that GTel Teleconnections has selected Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS®) for IPTV to secure its new IPTV service. VCAS for IPTV has been fully integrated with the Falcon IP/Complete™ IPTV delivery system.
News categories: Verimatrix, GTel, Falcon IP/Complete, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, USA