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

NDS Group plc Reports Third Quarter Results
May 1, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced its operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. NDS had 86.9 million active digital TV smart cards, 83.1 million cumulative middleware clients deployed and 12.1 million cumulative DVR clients deployed.
News categories: NDS Group, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Telenor First quarter 2008: Continued growth and stable margin
Apr 30, 2008 – Revenues in the Canal Digital Group increased primarily due to higher revenues from sales of additional services to subscribers, including hardware sales.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Digital TV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Latens CAS Selected for Transition to Digital of Swiss Cable Operator ESR
Apr 29, 2008 – Latens Systems and L'Energie de Sion-Région SA (ESR), a utility company in the Sion region of Switzerland, have announced that ESR has selected Latens CAS to protect its new DVB-C cable system.
News categories: Latens, ESR, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Switzerland

VIACCESS chosen by Vest@vision to secure content of new offer TNtop
Apr 17, 2008 – Vest@vision has chosen Viaccess' innovative solution of content security for its TNTop offer, an offer which will give a secured access to all channels of the Digital Terrestrial Television.
News categories: Viaccess, TNTop, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, France, NABShow, Terrestrial

Premiere to Introduce Next Generation Nagravision Smartcards
Apr 15, 2008 – Premiere and the Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD.VX) confirm that Premiere will continue to secure its pay TV revenues with Nagravision technology. The latest generation of smartcards will be introduced from May 2008 onwards.
News categories: Nagravision, Premiere, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite

Premiere Chooses NDS VideoGuard® to Secure its Pay-TV Platforms in Germany and Austria
Apr 15, 2008 – NDS Group (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that Premiere will deploy VideoGuard®, the market-leading content protection solution from NDS, to secure its pay-TV satellite platforms in Germany and Austria.
News categories: NDS Group, Premiere, Austria, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite, Set Top Box

Sigma Designs and SecureMedia Launch Ãœber-Security For A New Generation of IPTV Digital Media Devices
Apr 15, 2008 – SecureMedia has announced that its Encryptonite ONE™ digital media protection system has been integrated into the SMP 8630 family of Secure Media Processors from Sigma Designs (Nasdaq: SIGM).
News categories: SecureMedia, Sigma Designs, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

New digital broadcasting platform at Ultravision secured by content protection specialist Conax
Apr 14, 2008 – Ultravision is expanding their repertoire of broadcasting offerings by adding a digital-tiered broadcasting platform. Ultravision currently serves approximately 190,000 customers in 18 cities throughout Mexico over an analog MMDS network.
News categories: Conax, Ultravision, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Mexico, MMDS, NABShow

A-VSB Initiative Demonstrates the First end-to-end ATSC-Compatible Mobile Broadcast TV Platform
Apr 14, 2008 – The A-VSB Initiative, whose members include Samsung Electronics, MobiTV, Nokia Siemens Networks, Rohde & Schwarz and SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME®, announced a live demonstration of an end-to-end broadcast mobile TV platform at NAB.
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, Mobile, NABShow, Satellite