Chunghwa Video Services Demand Explodes with Premium HD and Olympics Content Secured By Widevine

Fastest growing IPTV service signs up record number of subscribers while enabling in-home network expansion for consumers

SEATTLE — Widevine Technologies, the only provider of multiformat, multiplatform DRM and digital copy protection solutions, today announced Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE: CHT) has purchased an additional 450,000 Cypher® Virtual SmartCard™ clients from Widevine to accommodate rapid subscriber expansion and in-home network proliferation with existing subscribers. The continued demand for Chunghwa’s television service has largely been driven by the introduction of existing Hollywood premium content, HD programming and exclusive rights to Olympics coverage.

Chunghwa’s interactive TV service, Multimedia on Demand (MOD), is the largest IPTV deployment in the world based on number of devices deployed. Customers of the Chunghwa service can take advantage of a wide range of linear broadcast channels, video-on-demand, pay-per-view and karaoke-on-demand.

“We are pleased to utilize Widevine’s content protection to secure content for our subscribers who continue to seek us for our exceptional service offering,” said Cheng Chin-Min Ph. D, Managing Director of Chunghwa’s Multimedia Department. “Widevine is a critical enabler of our business model and service offerings, especially as we look to expand our footprint to multiple consumer devices. What’s more, their content protection solutions have proven scalable to meet our highly aggressive growth requirements leading up to the Olympics and beyond.”

Widevine Cypher secures the entire Chunghwa footprint–enabling multimedia service delivery across multiple consumer devices within the home.

“Widevine, working closely with Alcatel-Lucent to provide the middleware, believes in the Chunghwa vision and award winning IPTV services they have offered over the last five years,” says Brian Baker, Widevine CEO. “As we continue our global leadership in enabling managed network operators to secure multimedia services to multiple consumer platforms, we are confident our support of Chunghwa will enable all 4.1M subscribers to share in the vision of exceptional TV services into the home and beyond.”