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Advanced Security Technology: Addressing Piracy In The Post-Smartcard Era – Part 2
In our previous post discussing advanced security technologies, Geir Bjorndal, vice president, international strategy, with the multi-network security specialist, Verimatrix, addressed the changes in piracy techniques. In the second part of the story, he outlines advanced security techniques and solutions that aim to cure the piracy “illness” rather...
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Historically, pay-tv operators have relied upon legacy, smartcard-based conditional access (CA) security solutions to protect their content against piracy and to ensure only authenticated customers have access to valuable content. Over the past few years, however, the changing…
Nigel Walley, MD at Decipher, takes a hard look at CES and asks: Did anything on display have the potential to disrupt the TV distribution landscape, and will the initiatives on offer prompt more revenues or more costs?…
With more than a million Android-based devices being activated every day, it is time to think seriously about how we protect content on them. There are various techniques that can make them behave more like STBs, as Verimatrix…
Second screen (companion) devices are targeted for a large number of applications that enhance the overall TV watching experience of the user. These applications are also a means for various stakeholders like broadcasters, pay-TV operators, CE vendors and…
With IBC 2012 starting tomorrow, this IBC special blog looks at one of this year’s key show themes – the issues surrounding content creation and innovation. As the marketplace swells with competition, and consumers become more fickle than…
A Pay TV provider offering a full range of multi-screen services in 2012 has seen its content delivery platform topologies explode 60-fold. They need to do this without unmanageable support costs and should take advantage of test automation.…
You wait years for one, then three arrive at once…. So YouView has finally launched, and having waited for years for our first box, there are now three different ones to play with down at iBurbia Studios. We…
With IBC fast approaching once again, I have been contemplating that perennial question – what is the future of the set-top box? Let’s start with the basics – what does a consumer want from a set-top box? I…
Recommendation engines for static content are now commonplace but the challenge now is supporting real-time suggestions for 500+ linear channels.
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Philip Hunter argues that DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) Premium Video deserves more attention than it is getting, because it will open the whole home to premium content.…
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