CAM (Conditional Access Module) / CI Plus (CI+) / CableCARD™ / Smart card News

Abertis Integrates Irdeto to Strengthen its TDT Premium Digital Content Security
Feb 24, 2010 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) and Abertis Telecom (Madrid: ABE) have worked to validate the Irdeto Conditional Access System (CAS) integration into Abertis Telecom's open digital terrestrial TV TDT Premium platform.
News categories: Irdeto, Abertis Telecom, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Nagravision licenses conditional access to CAM maker E-DOMUS
Feb 18, 2010 – Nagravision (SIX:KUD.VX) has announced that it has signed a license agreement with E-DOMUS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED enabling it to produce and market Conditional Access Modules (CAMs) integrating Nagravision's Conditional Access Systems (CAS).
News categories: Nagravision, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Spain

150,000 active users for TivùSat
Feb 16, 2010 – The number of TivùSat cards ordered by set-top box and television manufacturers for Italy's free-to-air satellite TV service has reached 790,000. With an activation rate of around 1300 to 1500 a day, the number of active users has reached 150,000.
News categories: TivùSat, CAM, Digital TV, Italy, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Nagravision Demonstrates Streaming Mobile TV & VOD Content Protection at Mobile World Congress
Feb 15, 2010 – Nagravision (SIX:KUD.VX) is demonstrating innovative Mobile TV solutions dedicated to the secured streaming of Mobile TV, Catch-up TV and VOD over 3G/4G and Wi-Fi networks at the Mobile World Congress.
News categories: Nagravision, 5G, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Mobile, MWC24, Smart TV

China Digital TV Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results
Feb 10, 2010 – China Digital TV Holding Co.(NYSE: STV) has announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. China Digital TV shipped 2.36 million smart cards during the quarter, compared to 2.66 million shipped during the fourth quarter of 2008.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results

CableLabs issues 'Set-Back Box' specification
Jan 22, 2010 – CableLabs has issued its OpenCable Host Thin Chassis Device (OCTCD) specification. The objectives of the OCTCD are to reduce the cost of OpenCable devices; to receive scrambled cable services with a CableCARD; and, to support two-way services.
News categories: CableLabs, Cable TV, CAM, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

CS Link pay TV card sales exceed 500,000
Jan 11, 2010 – Media Vision, the operator of the CS Link satellite TV platform, has announced that in the last quarter of 2009, sales of pay TV cards passed the 500,000 mark, making a total of over 419 thousand active customers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
News categories: CS Link, CAM, Czech Republic, Satellite, Slovakia, Subscribers

Irdeto and Humax develop HD secure chipset box for the Middle East
Dec 29, 2009 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) has announced that it has partnered with Humax to develop the first secure high definition set top box (HD STB) for the Middle East region. The STB will feature Irdeto's conditional access system (CAS).
News categories: Irdeto, Humax, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middle-East, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

TivùSat ships half millionth card
Dec 9, 2009 – In its first four months of operation, Italy's free satellite platform TivùSat has sold 570,000 cards to manufacturers of set-top boxes and integrated digital televisions, almost double its expectation at this point of 300,000 cards.
News categories: Tivù, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Italy, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Subscribers