DRM (Digital Rights Management) News

First-Ever Mobile Television Handset With Smartcard Profile Protection
Jun 6, 2007 – Discretix together with CyberLink, CoreMedia, and GIGA-BYTE Communications (GBC), have announced a demonstration of the first mobile TV handset supporting the Smartcard Profile. More …
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile

Irdeto and SafeNet Resolve Mobile TV Protection Technology War
May 24, 2007 – SafeNet and Irdeto have announced a partnership in mobile TV protection. The resulting joint solution unites two normally competing technologies: conditional access and digital rights management (DRM) to reduce risk and uncertainty for operators. More …
News categories: Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Mobile

Latvia's Lattelecom Selects Widevine for IPTV Deployment
May 15, 2007 – Widevine® Technologies has announced that Lattelecom, the Baltic’s first MPEG-4 IPTV solution has chosen Widevine to enable its acquisition of premium content and secure delivery on the H.264 platform to multiple devices in the home. More …
News categories: Conditional Access, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Latvia

Secure Processors for Consumer Electronics: 0 to 60 Million in Six Years
May 11, 2007 – Processor companies are enhancing their architectures and embracing security features. By 2013, more than 60 million CE devices are expected to ship with hardware security. More …
News categories: Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Market Research, Semiconductor

Review Period Opens for ISMACryp 2.0 Encryption Spec
May 9, 2007 – ISMA has opened a public review period for ISMACryp 2.0, a new release of its open standard specification that extends its end-to-end content protection scheme for use with any codec. More …
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM

CoreMedia, Discretix to Demo OMA BCAST Smartcard Profile Mobile TV at NAB
Apr 19, 2007 – Discretix and CoreMedia have announced the availability of a groundbreaking mobile television solution at NAB2007. The solution is the first ever to offer end-to-end service and content protection according to the OMA BCAST Smartcard Profile. More …
News categories: CAM, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Mobile, NABShow

RadioScape plans to support ADI DSPs for Mobile TV
Mar 13, 2007 – Radioscape believes that there will be demand for its proven stacks and applications for DAB, DMB, DAB-IP, DRM, FM and AM on platforms other than TI. The first of these will be the Analog Devices Blackfin® BF52x series of processors. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DRM, Middleware, Mobile

TTP licenses mobile TV technology to ZTE
Jan 8, 2007 – Technology development and IP licensing group The Technology Partnership (TTP) has licensed its DBTV open standards based mobile television implementation to Chinese mobile phone manufacturer ZTE.
News categories: ZTE, The Technology Partnership (TTP), STMicroelectronics, 5G, Digital TV, DRM, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

ST Dual HDTV Decoder Chip in 65nm Technology
Jan 8, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) today announced a new dual-video-stream high-definition (HD) decoder chip, the STi7200, intended for STBs, digital video recorders (DVRs) and DVD players.
News categories: Blu-ray, CES2025, Digital TV, DRM, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box