Tivù, the company that provides tivùsat, the Italian free-to-air satellite platform, has extended its technology partnership with NAGRA to include cardless security solutions – a move that supports the addition of the DAZN Live Sport channel, Zona DAZN, which is now made available as a satellite feed. Zona DAZN becomes the first pay channel carried on tivùsat.
The new cardless solution will supplement existing NAGRA smartcard solutions deployed at tivùsat. DAZN subscribers can activate the satellite channel on a Tivù set-top box or conditional access module (CAM) (plugged into television sets), with satellite distribution expected to boost QoS and service reach for DAZN Zona. DAZN Zona is only available as a satellite feed on tivùsat; it is not streamed to these devices.
Alberto Sigismondi, President of Tivù Srl, says: “We’re excited to bring our end-users all the action on the Zona DAZN channel from the start of the new football season. Our long-term relationship with NAGRA means we’re able to bring this content to our customers safe in the knowledge that it is secured by best-of-breed NAGRA cardless technology.”
Nancy Goldberg, EVP and Chief Marketing and Sales Officer at NAGRA, comments: “Helping our customers to provide the widest possible content choice to their viewers is core to our ambition. We are proud to extend our security solution across the tivùsat platform to additionally protect DAZN premium sports content. The adoption of this distribution approach by an OTT operator, whose content will be distributed via satellite, further demonstrates the flexibility of NAGRA solutions.”
NAGRA cardless technology is used by media and entertainment operators worldwide to secure premium content delivered to proprietary and Android set-top boxes. It adheres to strict MovieLabs requirements for enhanced content protection of 4K/HDR content.
